Francois Vouvray Academy/Apricot Delight (videos)

  • $120

Apricot Delight (videos)

  • Course
  • 20 Lessons

Craft exquisite French entremets with confidence. In this class, you’ll create Apricot Delight, a luminous dessert balancing freshness, creaminess, and crunch. You’ll master a vibrant apricot jelly, an airy vanilla mousse, and the key steps to a flawlessly reflective mirror glaze. Finally, you’ll finish on a buttery sablé base for perfect contrast and a look worthy of a Paris pastry shop.

Learn the art of French petits gâteaux

Discover the world of modern individual pastries (petits gâteaux)

✅ Delicious Flavors

Combine apricot and vanilla for an exquisite flavor pairing. This recipe works beautifully with fresh apricots in season or with canned apricots year-round.

✅ The craft of Jellification

Master the Jellification process, to create intense flavors in a Gel layer that can be used in mousse pastries

✅ The Vanilla Whipped Ganache

Learn professional whipped vanilla ganache, and explore vanilla options from everyday to professional grade.

✅ The technique of shortcrust blind baking

Learn to make shortcrust bases that support individual desserts, far more elegant than plastic holders, and master the professional method for blind baking.

✅ The art of Mirror Glazing

Learn to make a professional-grade mirror glaze to coat individual pastries, protect them, and add a silky finish.

✅ Modern Decorating

Learn to pipe a modern swirl and decorate your pastries with the very techniques used by Parisian chefs.

✅ The techniques

We will learn various techniques used in Parisian pastry shops, from piping cones, building your own saint-honoré tip, mold assembling and glazing.

✅ Finishing and preserving

We will finish the pastries, and learn how to store it and preserve it.

Masterclass Preview

➡️ In this video, I’ll introduce you to this petit gâteau and go over the various recipes and techniques that you will learn with this course.

What you will have access to

Format

On-demand video classes, accessible anytime

Support

You will get access to me for extra support at no charge

Watch on any device

eBook accessible via any type of device

Exclusive Recipes

All recipes come from my teachers in France and USA, top chefs internationally recognized. Measurements are provided in both metric and US systems

Detailed Instructions

Recipes are detailed, with clear step-by-step instructions on videos. Videos come with booklets with ingredients and needed equipment

Contents

1- Introduction

In this section, you will learn about this dessert, and review the equipment needed, the recommended agenda, and everything you need to know, whether you intend to make this delicious dessert for yourself, or to sell as a business owner.

I will also introduce myself and offer you personal assistance.

About this dessert: for personal delight and business opportunities
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Ingredients and Equipment
The Roadmap

2- Mousse and insert

In this section, I’ll guide you through making what's inside the delights : a delicious vanilla mousse and the apricot "insert"

Apricot Rosemary Jelly
Vanilla Whipped Ganache
The Mold
Filling the Mold

3- Sablé Base

French Shortcrust Pastry
Sablé Base

4- Glazing

The Mirror Glaze
Glazing and Assembly

5- Decoration

Cream Swirls
Piping Cone
Fruit cuts and Apricot Dots

6- Final Details

Final tips - Storing, Serving
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