Marc Bauer’s Chocolate Mousse with Candied Orange and Bergamot

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Master Chef of France Marc Bauer’s Chocolate Mousse with Candied Orange and Bergamot

 

Chef Marc Bauer is a Master Chef at the International Culinary Center in New York where he has spent the past 22 years honing his culinary and technical skills , and engaging in his passion to educate and inspire.  We reached out to ask him to share a recipe that was dear to his heart.

When asked what makes this recipe special to him, Chef Bauer told us that “Bergamot is a flavor reminiscent of my youth in Alsace. it is probably the first tropical flavor  I was exposed to in the form of a candy. I was able to bring that taste back in a classic chocolate mousse. You taste the chocolate first and finish with a linger of Bergamot”.

Ingredients

For the Candied oranges:
300g or 10 oz sugar
1 orange (washed, thinly sliced)

For the Chocolate biscuit:
5 egg whites
5 egg yolks
100g or 3 ½ oz sugar
80 g or 2 ¾ ozflour
40 g or 1 1/3 oz cocoa powder

For the Chocolate bergamot mousse:
200g or 7 oz Chocolate (71% cocoa barry or similar Dutch Processed Chocolate)
3 yolks
1 egg
150g sugar or 5 ½ oz
50 ml or 2 oz water
450ml or 1 pint heavy cream
3 gelatin sheets or 6 g powder
Bergamot oil 20 ml or 1Tbsp and 1 tsp

Procedure

For the Candied orange:
• Cover the sliced orange with cold water; bring to a simmer and drain. Repeat procedure 3 more times, and drain,
• Simmer in500ml (1 pint) of water with the sugar for about 25 minutes, drain, and dry the slices.
• Chop to ¼ inch dices and reserve.

For the biscuit:
• Butter a half sheet pan, dust with flour.
• Whisk the yolks until fluffy.
• Make a meringue with the whites
• Fold the yolk mixture into the meringue
• Sprinkle the sifted flour and cocoa powder into the mixture in three stages (to avoid lumps).
• Spread into your sheet pan with an offset spatula, evenly.
• Place in a 350F oven for about 5 to 7 minutes (or until the dough springs back when gently touching with a finger)
• Cool down and line a mold with the soft biscuit.

For the Mousse:
• Bring the water and sugar to soft ball stage (238F)
• Whisk the egg yolk and egg in a kitchen aid (whisk)
• Melt the chocolate over a water bath

Bloom the gelatin in cold water
• Whip the cream to soft peak, add the bergamot , reserve
• When syrup is at soft ball stage, pour into the thick egg and egg yolk mixture, (this is a pate a bombe)
• Add the gelatin (stir)
• Whisk until cool,
• Fold the chocolate, the candied orange dices into the pate a bombe
• Fold the whipped cream (make sure it is soft peak or it will become grainy) into the pate a bombe.
• Pour into the lined mold
• Let cool for 4 hours serve as is or unmold and serve, preferably with a Bergamot flavored crème Chantilly.

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