Crème Brûlée from Toni Mörward

Crème Brûlée from Toni Mörward

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Ingredients

  • 6 Egg yolks
  • ½ cup 110g Granulated sugar
  • 1 Vanilla bean
  • ¾ cup 200 ml Milk
  • 2 cups 500 ml Heavy cream
  • ¼ 50 g Brown sugar

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 185 °F (85 °C).
  • Mix the egg yolk and sugar.
  • Boil the halved vanilla bean in milk and heavy cream.
  • Remove from heat, remove the vanilla bean, and scrape the pulp into the milk.
  • Mix with the egg yolks.
  • Stir in a bain-marie until the mixture thickens.
  • Sieve, portion into dishes, and cook for 40 minutes.
  • Chill for 2 hours.
  • Dust with brown sugar and caramelize in the oven on the highest temperature (or use a kitchen torch).

Notes & Wine Advice

Burnt Pleasures

If you study French cookbooks—even modern ones—you will see that crème brûlée rarely appears. And in French restaurants, too, you will not see it on the menu as often you would think based on its worldwide popularity.
Crème brûlée is actually not even as French as mousse au chocolat. Rather, it is an adaptation of the caramel cream called “crema catalona,” which existed in Spain by the eighteenth century. The crispy top, however, is claimed by the British, who say that “burnt creams” were enjoyed by Cambridge students in the seventeenth century.
But crème brûlée doesn’t owe its status as a fashionable dessert of our time to Spain, England, or France. It conquered the hearts of the globalized dessert world first in 1982, when the fancy New York restaurant Le Cirque called for a “crème brûlée revival.”
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Course; Dessert
Cuisine; Austria / European

Bavarian Cream

Bavarian Cream

Bavaroise
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Ingredients

  • 3 Egg yolks
  • ⅓ cup 70 g Sugar
  • 1 Vanilla bean
  • 4 tsp 2 cl Kirsch (cherry brandy)
  • 2 Sheets gelatin
  • 1¼ cups 300 ml Heavy cream

Instructions

  • Halve the vanilla bean and scrape out the pulp.
  • Cream the egg yolk with sugar and vanilla pulp in a double boiler, then beat in an ice water bath until cold.
  • Add water to the gelatin, remove excess, and dissolve in warmed kirsch.
  • Stir into the egg mixture.
  • Whip the cream almost completely, then fold in.
  • Fill serving sized dishes and chill for 2 hours.

Notes & Wine Advice

Garnish Recommendation: fresh berries, fruit purée, or cardamom berries
A particular charming addition—especially in the cooler seasons—is preserved dried pears and plums. 

The Wittelsbach’s Sweet Secret

Even the most cunning culinary historians can’t find the answer to the question of just what is so Bavarian about Bavarian cream. There is even a “bavaroise italienne” and a “bavarois mexicaine.” Even the “muscovite,” created by a French chef for an aristocratic Russian family is a relative of Bavrian cream. The secret of why this basic French pastry cream has its blue and white name must have been taken to the grave by the Wittelsbach royal family. Maybe it was simply the fact that the Bavarian ruling class placed great worth on being served by French chefs.
 
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Course; Dessert
Cuisine; Austria / European

Crème Sabayon

Crème Sabayon

works well as a fluffy standalone dessert as well as a garnish for warm and cold desserts
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Cream egg yolks with sugar in a mixing bowl.
  • Place the bowl in a hot water bath, pour in the wine, and beat until it has doubled in volume.
  • Fill individual serving sized glasses or use as otherwise desired.

Notes & Wine Advice

Sabayon is a Zabaglione

Even the French Larousse Gastronomique admits it: the oft-quoted in cooking jargon “sabayon” is actually the Italian “zaglione.” Sabayon is actually a direct relative of the desserts made famous at the Roman “Café Greco,” a warm egg cream beaten with marsala wine and sugar. It is also known as “zabaione” in Italian. The French changed the name a bit and made the famous champagne mousseline that is mostly served with fish and shellfish, but is also still part of dessert. The Austrian “zabagliom variant, which is French inspired but not quite a French sabayon, is quite at home with dessert. It is a wine foam, often called “Schado “ or “Schato “ in old cookbooks, that is mostly served with cakes.
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Cuisine; Austria / European

Mascarpone Cream

Mascarpone Cream

This quick recipe to prepare cream is perfect as a garnish for marinated fruits and berries, but also as a “quick filling” for a summery fruit torte: spread the cream on a case base, lay fruit on top, and viola!
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Ingredients

  • 18 oz 500g Mascarpone
  • 2 tbsp Honey Zest of 1 orange
  • ¾ cup 100g Confectioner’s sugar
  • 7 tbsp 100 ml Heavy cream

Instructions

  • Mix the mascarpone with honey, orange zest, and confectioner’s sugar until smooth.
  • Whip the heavy cream.
  • Fold mascarpone mix in the whipped cream and chill.
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Course; Cheese / Sauce
Cuisine; Austria / European

Crème À L’anglaise

Crème À L’anglaise

not as classic vanilla sauce per se, but mostly as a basic pastry cream or as a base for various ice creams
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Slowly mix the egg yolk and sugar until the sugar has dissolved.
  • Boil the milk with the vanilla bean, remove the vanilla bean, and scrape the pulp into the milk.
  • Slowly pour the hot milk into the yolk mixture, stirring constantly.
  • Now pour the cream into a pot and mix constantly while heating it (not boiling! ) until the mixture begins to thicken.
  • You can tell when it is ready because when you blow on the cream while it is coating the cooking spoon, rings will appear that are reminiscent of a rose.
  • Then sieve the cream and use as desired.
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Course; Basic recipe / Sauce
Cuisine; Austria / European

Parisian Cream

Parisian Cream

Use: as classic torte filling
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Ingredients

  • 1 cup 250 ml Heavy cream
  • 9 oz 250 g Dark couverture chocolate or cooking chocolate

Instructions

  • Boil the heavy cream, dissolve the chocolate in it, and let cool.
  • Before it hardens completely, beat in a stand mixer until creamy, then use as desired.

Notes & Wine Advice

Parisian cream can be stored for a while in the refrigerator. Before using, it must be warmed slightly in a water bath and then beaten again.

An Eiffel Tower of Chocolate Cream

Parisian crème doesn’t get its name from a confectioner, but rather from a man who is famous for steel instead of snacks. We are talking about Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923), whose tower, built for the World’s Fair in Paris 1889, gave many confectioners the same idea: to create the shape of the Eiffel Tower on a pâte brisée base and pour chocolate over the whole thing. The chocolate cream used has been called Parisian cream ever sense.
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Course; Basic recipe / Sauce
Cuisine; European / French

German Buttercream

Buttercream

& German Buttercream
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Ingredients

Ingredients For the Basic Cream

  • 2 sticks plus 5 tbsp Butter
  • 6 tbsp 50 g Confectioner’s sugar

Variation: German Buttercream

Instructions

For the basic cream,

  • cream butter with confectioner’s sugar until white.

For the German cream,

  • boil ¾ cup (200 ml) of milk (! ) with granulated sugar.
  • Mix the rest of the milk with vanilla pudding mix and egg yolks and stir into the boiling milk.
  • Cook briefly, let cool, and sieve.
  • Then mix the vanilla cream into the buttercream one spoonful at a time and use as you wish.
  • Use: This recipe can be used as a classic torte cream, where the basic buttercream can be mixed with various additions.
  • Aside from the given vanilla cream, you can make hazelnut buttercream (mix in hazelnuts) or chocolate buttercream (mix in chocolate).

Notes & Wine Advice

Dalai Lama and the Buttercream Torte
The Dalai Lama never thought that his life’s work would one day be connected to good old German buttercream. Denis Scheck, the German literature critic and Ingeborg Bachmann Prize judge, was responsible for it. He received a review copy of the collection of Dalai Lama quotes, Daily Advice from the Heart, about which he said that it contained “wisdom with the intellectual force of a buttercream torte dropped from ten meters.” Having said that, buttercream torte doesn’t taste so bad at all, and you certainly don’t have to drop it from ten meters high.
 
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Course; Basic recipe / Sauce
Cuisine; Austria / European / Germany

Millet Mousse With Almond Cream

Millet Mousse With Almond Cream

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Ingredients

  • 2 oz 60 g Millet, hot rinsed
  • Pulp of ½ vanilla bean Dash of salt
  • 2 cups 500 ml Milk
  • 1 tsp Agar-Agar
  • 2 oz 50 g Maple syrup
  • ¼ cup 60 ml White wine
  • ¼ cup 60 ml Water
  • ½ cup 125 ml Whipped cream

For the Almond Cream

  • 2.5 oz 70 g Almonds, peeled and chopped
  • 1 cup 250 ml Heavy cream
  • 1 Egg yolk
  • 1.5 oz 40 g Maple syrup

Instructions

  • Boil the millet, vanilla pulp, salt, and milk.
  • Simmer on low for about 25 minutes with the lid slightly opened, then sieve.
  • Slowly bring the agar-agar to a boil in maple syrup, white wine, and water.
  • Remove from heat then bring to a boil again.
  • Mix the liquid agar-agar with the millet mixture.
  • Before it gels, fold in the whipped cream and fill molds with the mousse.
  • Chill for an hour.
  • Remove from the molds and garnish with the almond cream.
  • For the almond cream, boil the chopped almonds in the cream for 30 minutes.
  • Purée in a food processer.
  • Mix in egg yolks and stir until cool.
  • Sweeten with maple syrup before serving.
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Course; Nuts / Sauce
Cuisine; Austria / European

Tofu Cream With Raspberries

Tofu Cream With Raspberries

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Ingredients

  • 3.5 oz 100 g Fresh tofu
  • ½ cup 125 ml Heavy cream
  • 1 tbsp Honey
  • 6 oz 250 g Raspberries

Instructions

  • Purée the tofu, honey, and cream in a blender.
  • Lightly crush half of the raspberries with a fork and mix into the tofu cream.
  • Chill briefly.
  • Fill glasses using a piping bag.
  • Garnish with the rest of the raspberries.

Notes & Wine Advice

Garnish Recommendation: freshly baked sesame waffles
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Course; Fruit / Sauce
Cuisine; Austria / European

Almond Cream With Berries

Almond Cream With Berries

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Ingredients

Ingredients for 8 Servings

  • 4 Egg whites
  • 3 tbsp 40 g Granulated sugar
  • 2 oz 50 g Almonds, ground
  • 2 Sheets gelatin
  • 1½ cups 350 g Sour cream
  • 6 tbsp Amaretto
  • 9 oz 250 g Berries of your choice

Instructions

  • Add water to the gelatin and remove excess.
  • Warm the amaretto and dissolve the gelatin in it.
  • Mix with the sour cream and fold in the almonds.
  • Beat the egg whites to stiff peaks with granulated sugar.
  • Fold into the cream mixture and fill glasses.
  • Chill for 2 hours.
  • Garnish with fresh berries.
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Course; Fruit / Nuts / Sauce
Cuisine; Austria / European