David Collier - Pastry
Chef
Strawberry Financier
The Brown Butter Financier
Ingredients:
1) 450 grams Powdered Sugar
2) 150 grams Almond Flour
3) 120 grams All Purpose Flour
4) 60 grams Cake Flour
5) 5 grams Baking Powder
6) Pinch Salt
7) 450 grams Egg Whites
8) 360 Butter
Preparation:
1) Place butter in a small saucepan over low
heat and bring to simmer.
Shake pan occassionally
and continue cooking till butter has browned.
Remove butter from
pan and let cool.
2) Combine all dry ingredients and sift.
3) Place in mixer with whisk attachment and
add whites. Let whip on 2nd
speed for approximately
4 minutes.
4) Slowly add cooled butter to mixture then
whip on high for 10 seconds to
emulsify butter into
mixture. Whip on 2nd speed till thickened.
5) Chill till needed.
6) Before service, pipe mixture into prepared
molds or pans and bake until
golden brown (approximately
12 minutes in convection oven at 375F).
The Strawberry Ice Cream
Ingredients:
1) 755 Grams Milk
2) 680 Grams Cream
3) 150 grams Non Fat Dry Milk Powder
4) 60 grams Trimoline invert sugar
5) 120 grams Glucose Powder
6) 300 grams Sugar
7) 12 grams Ice Cream Stabilizer
8) 900 grams Strawberry Puree
Preparation:
1) Place milk, cream and trimoline in
sauce pan and bring to simmer.
2) Combine stabilizer and sugar.
3) Add sugar mixture and milk powder to
liquid.
3) Add glucose powder.
4) Bring back to simmer, remove from heat
and chill
5) When ready to spin ice cream, add strawberry
puree and process according
to your ice cream
machines directions.
The Macerated Strawberries
Ingredients:
1) Strawberries
2) Mint
3) Orange Zest
4) Simple Syrup (cooled)
5) Fraise de Bois Puree
Preparation:
1) Slice strawberries and place in bowl.
2) Chiffonade mint leaves and add along
with orange zest to bowl.
3) Add simple syrup and fraise de bois
puree to taste.
4) Chill till needed.
Pastry Chef David Collier
in the
studio kitchen with Lindsey
Gustin