Marina
Nikolaeva
pastry chef at Drinks@Dinners restaurant
Moscow
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Marina’s remarkable desserts previously graced the menus of such restaurants as Buono and Christian. She studied with Russian and foreign pastry chefs and chocolatiers, including Lyudmila Bukina, Ekaterina Swarovskaya, Valery Meshcheryakov, Olga Peniosa, Guillaume Mabilleau, Nicolas Bacher, Wielfried Hauwel, Mikhail Zorin, and other world celebrities. At Drinks@Dinners, Marina Nikolaeva makes trendy creative desserts: bright, light, and healthy.

BERRY PUFF

Marina
Nikolaeva
pastry chef at Drinks@Dinners restaurant
Moscow
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Ingredients
  • Margarine-based yeast puff pastry dough
  • Wheat flour 527 g
  • Water 154 g
  • Milk 100 g
  • Pressed yeast 26 g
  • Dry yeast 3 g
  • Trimoline 7 g
  • GRANDPRO Croissant margarine 120 g
  • Sugar 50 g
  • Salt 13 g
  • Custard
  • Egg yolk 25 g
  • Sugar 22 g
  • Corn starch 8 g
  • Cream 33% fat 25 g
  • Milk 3.5 % 1 g
  • Trimoline 6 g
  • Lemon zest 1 g
  • Vanilla paste 1 g
  • GRANDPRO Cream margarine 6 g
  • Egg 6 g
  • Assembling the dessert
  • Custard 20 g
  • Fresh berries 30 g
  • Neutral gel 10 g
  • Powdered sugar (optionally) 100 g
cooking

Margarine-based yeast puff pastry dough

  • Put all the dough ingredients (except sugar, margarine and salt) in a dough mixer. Start kneading at a slow speed, then continue at an intensive one; it will promote gluten development.
  • Add GRANDPRO Croissant margarine. Use margarine in a plastic state (15—20°C). The dough temperature should not be higher than 24°C. Then add sugar and knead until it completely dissolves in the dough. Add salt finally.
  • Cover the dough with cling film and leave to rest for 1 hour at room temperature.
  • Lamination process. Roll out the dough and fold it into a rectangle. Make lamination in 36 layers. After each roll-out, place the dough in a refrigerator for 30 minutes. Before each rolling, it is necessary to expand the dough by 90° to smooth lamination and remove mechanical influences on the dough. To obtain the correct shape of the dough, roll it out in a dough sheeter machine to 4-5-mm layer.

Custard

  • Combine egg and yolk with sugar and starch, stir with a whisk.
  • Heat cream with milk, trimoline, lemon zest and vanilla paste; pour it in a thin stream on the egg and sugar mixture, stirring constantly with a whisk.
  • Pour the mixture in a saucepan. Heat until thickened and strain through a sieve.
  • Add GRANDPRO Cream margarine, emulsify with a blender; cool.

Assembling the dessert

  • Roll out the dough into a 4.5×11-cm rectangle. Make a longitudinal slot in the middle. Wrap one end inside and the opposite end in the opposite direction.
  • Stretch the dough and leave it for a second rise at 32—35°C and 73–75% humidity until doubled volume. Bake the puffs (without custard) in a convection oven at a temperature about 170°C for 15–20 minutes.
  • Let the puffs cool. Put the custard and berries on top. Glaze the puffs with neutral gel and dust with powdered sugar if desired.