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Ingredients
  • Sablé base: 10 g

  • Sponge cake: 15 g

  • Strawberry soak: 5 g

  • Strawberry confiture: 20 g

  • Kirsch Bavarian cream: 60g

  • White chocolate coating: As needed

  • Strawberries and oxalis leave for decoration: As needed

  • Strawberry glaze: As needed

Instructions

Assembly -Montage-

  1. Pour 60g of Bavarian cream into each silicone mold.

  2. Insert the frozen sliced sponge roll (3.5 cm in width) and cap with a sablé circle.

  3. Freeze in a blast freezer until set, then unmold and spray with a white chocolate coating.

  4. Decorate with strawberries, apply strawberry glaze, and garnish with oxalis leaves.

This recipe uses Chef Tanaka’s original mold (approximately 170ml).

TREHA®︎ benefit
  • Stabilizes air bubbles in the biscuit.

  • Maintains the fruit’s vibrant color and aroma for an extended time while keeping the sweetness of the confiture and glaze balanced.

  • Enhances the mousse’s freeze-thaw stability without adding excessive sweetness.

Click here for the exclusive interview with the recipe creator, Chef Yu TANAKA, the first Japanese executive chef Pâtissier at Hôtel Le Bristol, Paris.

Strawberry-based product
Ingredients

Homemade strawberry juice*¹
(For strawberry glaze & strawberry soak) 

  • 1300 g frozen strawberries

  • 130 g granulated sugar (10% w/w to the strawberries )

Strawberry Glaze

  • 500 g homemade strawberry juice*¹

  • 200 g granulated sugar (a)

  • 180 g TREHA®

  • 100 g glucose syrup

  • 30 g lemon juice

  • 20 g Granulated sugar (b)

  • 5 g pectin NH

Strawberry Soak

  • 180 g homemade strawberry juice*¹

  • 20 g kirsch

Strawberry Confiture

  • 300 g strawberries

  • 45 g granulated sugar (c)

  • 30 g TREHA®

  • 12 g lemon juice

  • 30 g granulated sugar (d)

  • 24 g pectin NH

Instructions

Homemade strawberry juice

  1. Add granulated sugar to frozen strawberries, vacuum seal, and cook in a steam oven (90°C/ 194°F, RH100%) for 2-3 hours.

  2. Strain through a fine mesh sieve. Yields approximately 700g of strawberry juice.

Strawberry Glaze -Nappage Fraise-

  1. Heat the strawberry juice, granulated sugar (a), TREHA®, glucose syrup, and lemon juice together in a saucepan.

  2. Mix granulated sugar (b) with pectin thoroughly, then add to the heated mixture. Bring to a boil, then remove from heat and let cool.

Strawberry Soak -Imbibage Fraise-

Combine the ingredients evenly.

Strawberry Confiture -Confiture Fraise-

  1. Roughly crush the strawberries and mix with granulated sugar (c), TREHA®, and lemon juice. Let sit for at least 1 hour. Heat to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes.

  2. Add granulated sugar (d) combined with pectin NH, bring to a boil again, then transfer to a tray and cover with cling film to cool.

Sponge cake -Biscuit à la cuillère-
Ingredients

Sponge cake
(For one 33 x 55cm baking sheet)

  • 120 g egg whites

  • 3 g dried egg whites

  • 40 g TREHA®

  • 100 g granulated sugar

  • 25 g potato starch

  • 80 g egg yolks

  • 100 g cake flour

  • Other ingredients

Other Ingredients

  • 200 g strawberry soak

  • 400 g strawberry confiture

Instructions
  1. Whip the egg whites, dried egg whites, and TREHA® together. Gradually add granulated sugar to form a firm meringue, then gently fold in the potato starch. Add egg yolks in the same manner, followed by the flour.

  2. Spread the batter to a 5mm thickness on a silicone baking mat using 5mm rulers. Bake in a convection oven at 190°C/ 374°F for 5-6 minutes. Cool on a rack.

  3. Trim edges to 30cm length and soak the unbaked surface with 200 g of strawberry soak.

  4. Turn the sponge sheet over and thinly spread 400 g of strawberry confiture on top.

  5. Roll the sponge sheet like a Swiss roll, wrap with an OPP sheet, place in a 5cm diameter tube, and freeze.

  6. Once frozen, slice the log into pieces with a 3.5 cm width.

Sablé Base -Sablé reconstitué-
Ingredients

(Easy Batch Size)

Streusel for Sablé Base*²

  • 100 g butter

  • 100 g cake flour

  • 100 g almond powder

  • 100 g powdered sugar

Sablé Base

  • 300 g streusel*²

  • 20 g cocoa butter

  • 30 g white chocolate

Instructions
  1. Combine all ingredients of streusel in a food processor until crumbly. Spread on a baking sheet and bake at 150°C/ 302°F. After baking, break any large chunks into smaller pieces as needed.

  2. Mix all ingredients for sablé base and press 12 g into a 5 cm ring mold. Chill until set.

Kirsch Bavarian Cream -Bavaroise au kirsch-
Ingredients

(Easy Batch Size)

Mixture A

  • 830 g heavy cream; 35% fat (1)

  • 1 pod of vanilla bean

  • 60 g caster sugar

  • 50 g TREHA®

  • 272g egg yolks

Additional Ingredients

  • 14 g gelatin sheets (softened in ice water)

  • 830 g heavy cream; 35% fat (2)

  • 30 g kirsch

Instructions
  1. Make a crème anglaise with cream using ingredients A.

  2. Add the softened gelatin to the crème anglaise.

  3. Whip heavy cream (2) to soft peaks, then gently fold the crème anglaise and kirsch into the whipped cream.

White Chocolate Coating -Pistlet- 
Ingredients

(Easy Batch Size)

  • 600 g white chocolate

  • 400 g cocoa butter

Instructions

Melt both ingredients and mix.