Name: Chocolate Vol-au-Vents with Pecan Praline Creme Mousseline & Raspberries
Yield: Makes 6
Ingredients: 3 egg yolks; 50 g granulated sugar; 640 g chocolate puff pastry; a little oil, for spraying; 1 tbsp water; 30 g pecans, roughly chopped; 80 g caster sugar; 18 raspberries, to decorate; 20 g cornflour; 250 ml whole milk; icing sugar, for dusting; 100 g butter, softened and cut into cubes; plain flour, for dusting; 1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped out

Preparation info

Makes
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake

By Lorraine Pascale

Published 2017

About

It is rare to see crème mousseline these days unless you visit very fine patisseries. It is also called German buttercream and is essentially a crème pâtissière enriched with a whole lot of butter – incredibly decadent! It’s good to have lots of different filling alternatives so you can really experiment with the look and feel of your beautiful baked goods.