Jack o’cheesecake
Recipe by François Galtier
I. COMPOSITION
- Orange Inclusion
- Lime Cheescake Whipped Ganache
- Chocolate Shell
- Golden Glaze
II. POACHED ORANGE
- 250 g orange peels
- 500 g water
- 500 g sugar
PROCESS
- Put the orange peels in a pan with a lot of cold water and boil.
- Drain the orange peels and repeat two more times.
- In another pan, boil the water with half of the sugar and add the
orange peels to cook, without exceeding 70°C. - Slowly add the rest of the sugar to concentrate the syrup.
- Stop cooking when the orange rinds are tender. Store in an airtight
box with the syrup.
III. ORANGE INCLUSION
- 110 g water
- 165 g orange juice
- 27 g sugar
- 4 g agar agar
- 110 g poached orange
- 25 g pumpkin seed
- 25 g Belgian dark chocolate Microdrops
- 35 g lemon segment
PROCESS
- Heat the water and orange juice to 40°C.
- Mix the sugar and agar agar, add to the mix and boil
- Leave the mix to cool in the fridge.
- Blend the jelly until soft, then mix in the poached orange, finely cut.
- Next, add the pumpkin seed, Belgian dark chocolate Microdrops and the lemon segment.
- Fill 4,5 cm spherical silicon moulds with the mixture and freeze them.
IV. LIME CHEESECAKE WHIPPED GANACHE
- 100 g fresh cream 35% fat
- 700 g Obsession 30 Belgian white chocolate
- 250 g fresh cream 35% fat
- 180 g cream cheese
- 20 g lime juice
- 2 g lime zest
- 1 pc vanilla bean
- 40 g sugar
PROCESS
- Heat the first part of fresh cream and mix with the chocolate to make a ganache.
- Pour the second part of fresh cream into the mixture.
- Gradually combine the two mixtures.
- Leave to cool in the fridge for few hours.
V. CHOCOLATE SHELL
- 200 g Deodorized Cocoa Butter
- 500 g Obsession 30 Belgian white chocolate
- SQ Red Liposoluble Food Colouring
- SQ Yellow Liposoluble Food Colouring
PROCESS
- Warm up the Deodorized Cocoa Butter and mix with the chocolate to obtain a 50°C mix.
- Add the colourings and blend.
- Leave to cool down to 35°C to use.
VI. GOLDEN GLAZE
- 100 g fresh cream 35% fat
- 72 g sugar
- 410 g glucose sugar
- 180 g gelatin mass (1/5)
- 225 g Intense 35 Belgian milk couverture chocolate
- 700 g neutral mirror glaze
- SQ gold powder
- SQ Crispy Crunchies
PROCESS
- Boil the cream with the sugar and glucose. Pour on the gelatin to melt.
- Add the chocolate and mix well to melt all the dots.
- Add the mirror glaze at the end, blend the glaze, add gold powder and
use at 35/40°. - Use Crispy Crunchies to decorate the glaze.
VII. ASSEMBLING
- Whip the lime cheesecake whipped ganache until it has the same texture
as a Chantilly cream. - Pour some into blossom silicon moulds, then fill the moulds with the frozen
orange inclusion. - Freeze them. Glaze with the chocolate shell and leave to crystalize.
- Glaze the bottom (2 cm) with the golden glaze and sprinkle some Crispy Crunchies on it.
- Decorate with modelling chocolate.