Chestnut Cream Charlotte soft and indulgent
Ingredients for 8 servings
- Charlotte chestnut cream and custard sauce for 8 people:
- 17.75 oz (500 g) of ladyfinger biscuits
- 1 can of plain chestnut puree (chestnuts) approximately 19.5 oz (550 g)
- 1.1 qt (1 liter) of cold vanilla custard sauce
- 1.7 fl oz (5 cl) of amber rum (good, but optional)
- 14 oz (400 g) of sugar cubes
- 1 beautiful ribbon
- powdered sugar
Step-by-step recipe
1 Make your vanilla custard sauce and let it cool.
2 In a thick saucepan, make a syrup with the 14 oz (400 g) of sugar cubes, half a lemon juice and 1.1 cups (25 cl) of water. Let cook for five minutes, add the rum, remove from heat and let cool.
3 Drain your can of chestnut puree, place it in a large bowl and add half of your cold syrup, stir with a whisk to mix the two well then incorporate half of the custard sauce, mix well and refrigerate.
4 In a tall charlotte mold (teflon or flexipan) on the bottom, prepare a small rosette with ladyfinger biscuits moistened with syrup cut at an angle (in a rosette pattern).
Then pour 3 centimeters of your chestnut cream and place your mold in the freezer for 10 minutes.
5 Meanwhile, cut the rounded ends of the ladyfinger biscuits so they are exactly the height of your mold then, using a brush, on your work surface, flat, moisten your ladyfinger biscuits with your syrup.
6 Take your mold out of the freezer then place the biscuits around it by pushing them into the barely set cream (this allows for beautiful decoration).
7 Take the rest of the biscuits and cut them into large pieces and soak with syrup.
8 Then, you put a layer of chestnut mixture, a layer of biscuits etc up to the top and you finish with a layer of biscuits.
You place in the freezer and
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