Mandarin baked Alaska
Mandarin baked Alaska
Impress your guests with this incredible mandarin baked Alaska!
Mandarin sorbet ingredients
- Caramanfruit mandarin puree : 625g
- Water : 310g
- Tate & Lyle caster sugar : 220g
- Rubicone vegetal 70 : 68g
- Irca Svelto : 6g
Mandarin sorbet method
- Warm water to melt the sugars and combine all ingredients before churning through ice cream machine.
- Tip - use a refractometer to ensure the correct level of sugar is in the recipe, you should get a reading between 27-30, if not adjustment is required.
Mandarin Italian merigue ingredients
- Leonce Blanc mandarin puree : 180g
- Water : 100g
- Sosa Potatowhip : 12g
- Tate & Lyle sugar : 200g
- Sosa Trehalosa : 50g
- Sosa Liquid Glucose : 50g
Mandarin Italian merigue method
- Mix mandarin puree with Potatowhip in a bowl and blend until dissolved.
- Whip the mixture in a food processor at medium speed.
- Aside, mix water and sugars in a saucepan and heat up to 121ºC.
- Pour the syrup over the meringue slowly and continue whipping until it is cold and stable.
- Place meringue in a piping bag with a small star nozzle.
Cranberry gel ingredients
- Cranberry juice : 220g
- Stock syrup : 30g
- Sosa Gelcrem cold : 20g
Cranberry gel method
- Blend all ingredients except the amaretto together with a hand blender
- Leave for a minimum of 30 minutes to allow to hydrate
- Blend again to obtain smooth and glossy gel
Feuilltine and hazelnut crunch ingredients
- Sosa hazelnut praline : 250g
- roasted chopped hazelnuts : 50g
- feuilletine : 35g
- Belcolade 55% chocolate : 100g
Feuilltine and hazelnut crunch method
- Melt and temper the dark chocolate
- Incorporate all other ingredients
- Spread flat on a tray and leave to set
- Once set cut out discs in desired shape and size
Garnishes ingredients
- Dobla chocolate orange fruit : Desired
Garnishes method
- First make the feuilltine crunch base and set flat on a tray approx. 4mm thick, once set cut out discs a little smaller than the base of your sphere mould.
- Make gel and fill into small sphere moulds and freeze. Keep some for plate garnishing.
- Next make the sorbet, pipe half into sphere mould and then place smaller sphere of cranberry gel into the centre, place more sorbet over the top and fill sphere.
- Place feuilltine disc in to the base of the sorbet and freeze solid.
- Turn out sorbet from sphere mould and place on desired plate.
- Pipe meringue all over your sorbet in desired design or effect and blow torch to finish.
- Garnish with cranberry gel and a Dobla chocolate orange.

