Skip to main content
  • Summer
Choco Cube
Add to your recipe book
Espresso Zabayon Delight

Espresso Zabayon Delight

Coffee and zabayon semifreddo with shortcrust, soft biscuit, almond crémeux and coffee glaze.
Salvatore Toma
Salvatore Toma Find out more
Components
1. Almond Shortcrust
235 g powdered sugar
350 g Butter
5 g Salt
q.b. Vanilla
150 g almond flour
145 g Eggs
645 g shortcrust flour

Combine the butter with the sugar, salt, vanilla and almond flour. Add the eggs and when the mixture is uniform, add the flour in two goes. Cover with clingfilm and leave to rest in the fridge.

2. Soft Biscuit
350 g egg whites
240 g Sugar
4 g Salt
200 g Egg Yolks
160 g flour
60 g Cocoa 22/24
5 g baking
q.b. Vanilla
160 g sunflower oil
160 g Regina Milk Chocolate
80 g Full-fat Milk

Whip the egg white, sugar and salt into a foam. Add the liquid egg yolk and then the combined powders. Make an emulsion with melted chocolate, oil and milk and pour into the foam. Cook 600 g of the mixture on the silpat at 175 °C OV for 8-10 minutes.

3. Inverted Coffee Semifreddo
400 g Cream
100 g espresso
240 g Milk and Coffee Chunks
80 g Inverted Sugar
25 g erythritol

Heat the cream and the espresso with the coffee chunks, the inverted sugar syrup and the erythritol. Emulsify and place in the fridge for 8 hours.

4. Coffee Semifreddo
200 g espresso
100 g Inverted Sugar
50 g erythritol
550 g Milk and Coffee Chunks
150 g Italian meringue
650 g semi-whipped fat fresh cream

Heat the espresso with the inverted sugar syrup, the erythritol and the coffee chunks. Emulsify thoroughly and when the temperature goes above 35 °C add the meringue and the cream in two goes.

5. Almond and White Chocolate Praline Crémeux
50 g Caster Sugar
50 g Corn-starch
90 g Egg Yolks
30 g Butter
300 g Milk
300 g Artisan roasted Almond Praline 55%
150 g Edelweiss White Chocolate
140 g chilled cream
125 g Inverted Sugar

Make a pastry cream with milk, egg yolk, sugar, cornstarch, butter and the flavourings. When cooked add the praline, the chocolate and finally the chilled liquid cream and the inverted sugar syrup. Leave to cool and use.

6. Coffee Glaze
150 g Water
300 g Sugar
300 g glucose syrup 42 DE
200 g condensed milk
25 g isinglass
160 g Water
110 g plain gelatin
320 g Milk and Coffee Chunks

Heat the water, sugar, (colouring if required) and glucose to 103 °C, add the condensed milk and return to the boil. Add the hydrated gelatine sheets, the neutral gelatine and the coffee chunks, emulsify and chill.

7. Italian Meringue
300 g Caster Sugar
150 g glucose syrup
225 g Water
450 g Egg whites
150 g Sugar
150 g Dextrose

Cook at 121 °C caster sugar, glucose and water. Pour over egg white, sugar and dextrose. Whip until cool.

Assembly and decoration

Make the biscuit, roll out the shortcrust pastry to a height of 3 mm, cut off the ends of the single-serving and cook on a perforated silpat at 160 °C OV for 15 minutes. Pre-cut the soft biscuit and insert on the praline crémeux. Then roll out a layer of Zabuò Cream Icam Professional Code 7927 and transfer to blast chiller. Make the semifreddo and construct the single-serving, blast chill everything and then remove from the mould. Glaze and decorate as desired.

See other recipes from the course
Excellence Semifreddi
by
Salvatore Toma