Ingredients for 20 Tartlets (2½ in (6 cm) diameter)
Basic sponge cake for roulades
2½tbsp50 g Strawberry marmalade
3½tbsp5 cl Cointreau Granulated sugar
For the Yogurt Mousse
⅔cups400 ml Yogurt
2tbsp3 cl Cointreau
6tbsp50 g Confectioner’s sugar
4Sheets gelatin
1 1/5cups350 ml Whipped cream
For the Strawberry Mousse
¾cup300 g Strawberry purée (see p. 200)
5Sheets Gelatin
2tsp1 cl Lemon juice
2tbsp3 cl Strawberry liquor
⅔cup75 g Confectioner’s sugar
1cup250 ml Whipped cream
For the Strawberry Gelatin
½cup200 g Strawberry purée (see p. 200)
2Sheets gelatin
Garnish
Sweetened whipped cream
10Strawberries with stemshalved
Instructions
Bake the basic sponge cake.
Flip onto a sugared sheet pan and pull off the parchment paper.
Let the cake cool.
Then, with a round cookie cutter, cut out 20 sponge cake bases with a diameter of about 2 inches (5.
5 cm).
Mix the strawberry marmalade and Cointreau, warm, and saturate the sponge cake bases with the mixture.
Set the sponge cake bases into small ring forms.
For the yogurt mousse, mix yogurt and confectioner’s sugar.
Add water to the gelatin, removed excess water, and dissolve it in warmed Cointreau.
Stir the Cointreau into the yogurt mixture.
Fold in whipped cream, fill each form with yogurt mousse, and chill for about 15 minutes.
For the strawberry mousse, take 2 tablespoons from the strawberry purée and warm over a double boiler.
Add water to the gelatin, remove excess water, and dissolve it in the warmed strawberry purée.
Mix into the rest of the strawberry purée.
Flavor with strawberry liquor and lemon juice.
Sweeten whipped cream with confectioner’s sugar and fold into the strawberry mixture.
Add the strawberry mousse on top of the yogurt mousse and chill for another 20 minutes.
For the strawberry gelatin, take 2 tablespoons from the strawberry purée and warm over a double boiler.
Add water to the gelatin, remove excess water, and dissolve it in the warmed strawberry purée.
Mix into the rest of the strawberry purée.
Cool briefly and then cover the top of each tartlet with gelatin.
Chill for 2 hours.
Release the sides of each tartlet from each form with a knife dipped in hot water.
Garnish with a rosette of whipped cream and half a strawberry each.
Notes & Wine Advice
Coffee and Chocolate
We know that chocolate was particularly loved by the Habsburgs thanks to a gold chocolate service belonging to Empress Maria Theresa. It can be found today in the Viennese Kunsthistorisches Museum, with its pot, chocolate cups, spoons, and sugar sprinkler. There you can also see an enlightening watercolor of a “chocolate lever,” showing the Empress and Emperor with their children, taking their morning chocolate. The artist can certainly not deny having a particularly intimate view of the daily life of the court. After all, she is the Archduchess Maria Christine. In reality, the imperial breakfast was not quite as saccharine as the picture: The gaggle of imperial children was fed barley soup, and only Prince Consort Franz Stephan von Lothringen could never begin the day without his pot of chocolate. The Empress herself drank coffee.