Frédéric Bau, École du Grand Chocolat Valrhona

Mandarin Marvels

Name: Mandarin Marvels
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 4 h 55 min
Ingredients: 1 stick (4 ½ oz./125 g) butter; 2 ¾ cups (9 oz./250 g) cake flour; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; ⅓ cup (2 ⅔ oz./75 g) granulated sugar; ⅓ cup (2 ⅔ oz./75 g) granulated sugar; ½ beaten egg; 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon (20 ml) whole milk; ½ cup plus 1 ½ tablespoons (150 ml) whipping cream; 1 heaped tablespoon (1 oz./25 g) honey; 1 bar bittersweet chocolate, 60 percent cocoa; 1 bar bittersweet chocolate, 60 percent cocoa; 1 bar bittersweet chocolate, 60 percent cocoa; 1 bar bittersweet chocolate, 60 percent cocoa

Preparation info

Makes
20–30
mini-tartlets

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
5 hr

Appears in

Encyclopedia of Chocolate

By Frédéric Bau and École du Grand Chocolat Valrhona

Published 2017

About

Ingredients

Spiced dough

1 stick (4 ½ oz./125 g) butter
2 ¾

Dessert
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

Prepare the spiced dough. Take the butter out of the refrigerator several hours before you begin baking and place it in a mixing bowl. Mix it energetically with a flexible spatula.

Soften it further with the spatula or a whisk (the final texture is known as beurre pommade*).