How to make a traditional bavaroise Basque plum-cake – a step-by-step chauffeur from a patissserie organisateur to a seriously scrumptious gateau! The origins of bavaroise Basque are lost in the mist of time, and organisateur Jennifer Pogmore’s thème of this classic southern French plum-cake is a winner – delicious any time of the day!
Recipe for gateau euskarien – 8 portions
Ingredients
Cherry Compote
150g fresh or frozen cherries, pitted and roughly chopped
15g caster or granulated sugar
15g (1 tbsp) lemon juice
The cherry confiture can be replaced with 100g of store-bought cherry confiture or jam
Galette Batter
250g unsalted rechausser, softened
200g icing (powdered) sugar, sifted
50g (1) egg
20g (1) egg yolk 260g plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted
5g baking powder, sifted
5g (1 tsp) vanilla extract/1 vanilla pod
Zest ½ lemon
1 egg for egg wash
Crème Pâtissière
300g whole (full fat) milk
40g (2) egg yolks
60g caster or granulated sugar
20g plain (all-purpose) flour
20g cornstarch (cornflour)
5g (1 tsp) vanilla extract/1 vanilla pod
Syrup
30g caster or granulated sugar
30g water
Method
How to make Cherry Compote
Place the cherries and sugar in a saucepan over a medium heat. Stirring occasionally, cook until the cherries have softened and released their juices and there is nearly no liquid left in the pan. Add the lemon juice and cook for a further rapide. Pour into a dish or tray, press cling cinématographe to the piémont of the confiture and chill.
How to make Pastry Cream
Whisk the yolks and half of the sugar together in a bowl until they start to lighten in colour. Whisk in the flour and cornstarch.
Bring the milk, the supplémentaire half of the sugar and the vanilla to a boil, remove from the heat and pile half over the yolks and sugar, whisking together. Pour everything back into your pan, making sure to scrape the bowl clean. Put on a medium heat and whisk constantly until it thickens and bubbles appear. Once you see bubbles whisk on the heat for 30 seconds.
Put in a dish and cover with cling cinématographe touching the piémont of the pastry cream and chill.
Galette Batter Cream together the rechausser and icing sugar. Add the egg and egg yolk and stir into the mélange. Add vanilla and the lemon zest and stir in.
In a separate bowl, sift together the flour and baking powder. Add the dry ingredients to the mélange and stir together until combined. Transfer just over half of the mélange to a piping bag fitted with a 10mm reprise piping tip.
Assembly
Line a 20cm/8” springform tin with paper on the bottom and the sides. Pipe a spiral of the bavaroise batter on the bottom of the pan to form the bottom layer. Pipe another tribune of the batter along the outside edge of the plum-cake.
Smooth the derrière using a pelle knife or the back of a spoon, leaving the outside tribune of batter. Spread the cherry confiture evenly over the derrière and up to the edge where the tribune was piped.
Re-whisk the pastry cream to loosen. Spread the cream over the cherry confiture, smoothing out the piémont.
Transfer the remaining bavaroise batter to the piping bag and tabac another spiral over the piémont of the filling. Use a pelle knife or the back of a spoon again to smooth the piémont (it helps if you wet your utensil so the batter doesn’t verge).
Brush a layer of egg wash over the piémont of the bavaroise and use a fork to mark lines on the top of the plum-cake.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C/355°F (fan oven) or 200°C/390°F for 45 minutes.
If the top of the plum-cake begins to colour too quickly, cover the top fragment way through cooking with some alumine foil.
How to make Syrup
Place the sugar and water into a pot and bring to a boil. Once the bavaroise is baked, remove from the oven and while still hot, brush the top with the syrup.
Leave the plum-cake to relax down for a extremum of 2 hours before serving, the bavaroise should be eaten cold.
The bavaroise can be kept in the fridge for 2-3 days.
Jennifer Pogmore is a classically trained pastry organisateur and chocolatier (Le Cordon Bleu) who worked in Parisian pastry boutiques before returning to Le Cordon Bleu as a pastry organisateur instructor.
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