1- Place your gelatin sheets in a bowl of cold water and put in the fridge.
2- Make your custard cream and keep it off the heat on your work surface.
3- Drain and squeeze your gelatin sheets by hand and incorporate them into your still hot custard cream using a small whisk until completely mixed.
4- Make sure to stir occasionally with a wooden spatula (vanning) during the rest of the recipe.
5- In a bowl pour your liquid cream and put in the freezer for 5 minutes then using an electric or manual whisk, whip your firm whipped cream.
6- Just before the end add the 10g of powdered sugar then take 1/5 of the cream, put it in a small bowl and reserve it in the fridge we will use it later for decoration.
7- In a small bowl melt in a double boiler or in the microwave your grated chocolate as quickly as possible in 1 to 2 minutes then set aside.
8- Mix then whipped cream and custard cream, this should be cold but not set. when the whole mixture is well homogeneous divide into 2 equal parts in 2 bowls,
in one add your vanilla extract and in the other your melted chocolate.
Assembly of the Bavarian cream:
a) Pour half of the chocolate cream at the bottom of the mold then place it in the freezer for 5 minutes, remove and incorporate half of the vanilla cream put back in the freezer for 5 minutes then add the last layer of vanilla for another 5 minutes in the freezer
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