White Russian Stack

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Top Chef: Just Desserts, Season 1, Episode 2

Ingredients

  • White Russian Custard:
  • 9 oz yolks
  • 8 oz sugar
  • 32 oz heavy cream
  • .5oz vanilla bean
  • Vodka to taste
  • Godiva coffee liqueur to taste
  • Kahlua to taste
  • Chocolate Sable Base:
  • 50 gm butter
  • .5gm salt
  • 20 gm 10x sugar
  • 45 gm cake flour
  • 10 gm cocoa powder
  • Mocha Ice Milk:
  • 20 oz milk
  • 20 oz water
  • 10 oz sugar
  • 3 oz dry glucose
  • 2 ea vanilla bean
  • 3 gm stabilizer
  • Godiva coffee liqueur to taste
  • Almond Praline Tuile:
  • 100 gm butter
  • 100 gm sugar
  • 100 gm glucose
  • 150 gm almond flour

Preparation

Step 1

White Russian Custard:
1. Heat cream and vanilla bean. Combine yolks and sugar. Add to cream to mix and then strain. Cool slightly.
2. Flavor with liqueurs to desired amount (Note* add a little more, as the alcohol with cook out).
3. Pour into fleximolds and bake at 300F until set (30-45min). Freeze and un-mold while frozen.
Chocolate Sable Base:
1. Cream butter, salt, and sugar. Sift flour and cocoa and add, mix just until it comes together.
2. Roll between 2 pieces of parchment and freeze.
3. Cut into desired size, bake at 350F 8-12 minutes.
Mocha Ice Milk:
1. Heat all ingredients together, except liqueur, and steep for 1 hr.
2. Add desired amount of liqueur. Cool. Freeze.
Almond Praline Tuile:
1. Melt butter, add all ingredients. Spread thin onto silpat (it will continue to spread as it cooks).
2. Bake at 350F until golden brown. Cool slightly. Cut to desired shape.