An extremely elegant entremet with a perfect balance between a mousse with powerful chocolate aromas, soft pecan financiers, a tangy exotic confit and a melting gianduja-passion ganache - all arranged in a flower pattern on top of a crunchy pecan shortbread.
Total completion time
Completion time
1 hour 20 minutes
Cooking time
30 minutes
Rest period
24h00
Techniques taught
Making a financier
Baking a financier
Piping without using a tip
Preparing a neutral syrup
Preparing a crisp
Smoothing a glaze with a hand-held blender
Preparing a mousse
Baking a shortcrust pastry in the oven
Cutting a shortcrust pastry
Preparing a shortcrust pastry with a mixer
Rolling out a shortcrust pastry dough
Dough frassage by hand
Icing a dessert
Assembling a dessert
Making a brown butter
Pouring a preparation into a mold
Whipping cream with a mixer
Preparing a glaze
Mixing with a hand-held blender
Making a ganache
Creating a chocolate decoration
Filling a piping bag
Piping with a tip
Decorating witj a piping bag
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Step 1: Chocolate pecan glaze
Olivier Lainé
Pastry Chef and Instructor at the Ritz Escoffier School
Pastry Chef and Instructor at the Ritz Escoffier School
Step 2: Passion fruit gianduja ganache
Step 3: Two chocolate mousse
Step 4: Exotic confit
Step 5: Pecan shortcrust pastry
Step 6: Pecan Financier
Step 7: Chocolate pecan crisp
Step 8: Mounting the petals
Step 9: Chocolate mousse petal icing
Step 10: Final flower assembly and decoration
Olivier Lainé
Pastry Chef and Instructor at the Ritz Escoffier School
Olivier Lainé is a pastry Chef and a teacher at the Ritz Escoffier School.
A native of Brittany, Olivier Lainé's passion for gastronomy was passed on to him by his father, and he was introduced to pastry-making at an early age, while attending his first training course. Stimulated by this experience, he went on to earn a vocational degree in pastry (CAP-BEP Pâtissier) at the Lycée Louis Guilloux, where two encounters particularly left a mark on him: that of Eric Fillatre, his first teacher, and then that of Laurent le Daniel, Best Craftsman of France in the pastry category (MOF Pâtissier).
Olivier Lainé then began his professional career in Cannes, at the 2-Michelin-starred Oasis restaurant, where he worked extensively on taste combinations and on an innovative approach to pastry-making. He then returned to Brittany to open a family restaurant: for 5 years he combined pastry-making with entrepreneurship. His fondness for the world of pastry shops led him to return to Paris, where he worked for the famous Café Pouchkine, then for the Shangri-La palace, where he worked alongside Michael Bartocetti. As he gained experience though the years, training and the transmission of knowledge became extremely important to the Chef. So, in 2018, he decided to devote himself fully to the world of teaching and became an instructor at the prestigious Ritz-Escoffier School.
For VOILA CHEF, Olivier Lainé transmits his passion for pastry excellence with pedagogy and precision: a soft Savoy cake with a heart of candied apples, a delicate and subtle tartlet with exotic fruit notes and an elegant flower-shaped entremet with perfectly balanced flavors of chocolate, pecan and exotic fruit.
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May
2024
Great online training platform.
The videos are very detailed, and the professionals are very educational. So you can reproduce the recipes at home, even if you're not a specialist.
If you're still hesitating, go for it!
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2024
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Precise, clear... reassuring... you get there, it's great.
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2024
I'm a CAP pastry chef and I have all the basics, but with voila chef's courses, I really feel like I'm learning new things, more advanced and perfected techniques, and I've made considerable progress. What's more, the courses are extremely well explained, the videos are clear and easy to follow, and all the recipes I've tried have been 100% successful, and above all, they're also excellent in terms of taste.
Great online training platform.
The videos are very detailed, and the professionals are very educational. So you can reproduce the recipes at home, even if you're not a specialist.
If you're still hesitating, go for it!
SY
Sylvie Leandri
10
May
2024
I really like Voilà Chef's courses.
Precise, clear... reassuring... you get there, it's great.
Thank you so much 😃
LI
Lisa C
3
February
2024
I'm a CAP pastry chef and I have all the basics, but with voila chef's courses, I really feel like I'm learning new things, more advanced and perfected techniques, and I've made considerable progress. What's more, the courses are extremely well explained, the videos are clear and easy to follow, and all the recipes I've tried have been 100% successful, and above all, they're also excellent in terms of taste.
TH
Theo Castillon
28
January
2024
I'm a big fan of Voilà Chef! I really like this system of step-by-step video recipes created by top chefs in their field. Even as a professional, it inspires me a lot!
VA
Valérie
15
January
2024
A unique solution on the market, with exceptional filmed recipes from MOFs and a community sharing their practices. Ideal for all those who want to become more professional while enjoying themselves.
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