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Prova Exotic Fusion Rum Baba

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: French
Keyword: Cake, Pastry
Difficulty: Intermediate
Brand: Prova
Servings: 10 each
Author: Tristan Rousselot

Equipment

  • Stand Mixer
  • Mixing Bowl
  • Piping Bag
  • Silicone Ball-Shaped Mold
  • Baking Sheet
  • Oven
  • Stovetop
  • Sieve
  • Whisk

Ingredients

Fusion Rum Baba Dough

  • 84 g Butter (unsalted)
  • 348 g Plain White Sugar
  • 14 g Acacia Honey
  • 3 g Salt
  • 314 g Eggs
  • 14 g Fresh Yeast
  • 24 g Cocoa Butter (melted)

Exotic Passion Fruit Syrup

  • 578 g Water
  • 256 g Granulated Sugar
  • 100 g Passion Fruit Puree
  • 22 g Vanilla Beans (dried)
  • 22 g Lime Zest
  • 22 g Lemon Zest

Fusion Rum Whipped Ganache

Exotic Fruit Glaze

  • 209 g Mango Purée
  • 179 g Passion Fruit Puree
  • 96 g Caster Sugar
  • 63 g Allez Belgian Glucose Syrup
  • 42 g Water
  • 6 g Pectin NH Nappage
  • 6 g Caster Sugar

Decoration

  • 10 g Lime Zest
  • 10 g Lemon Zest
  • 10 g Atsina Cress

Instructions

Fusion Rum Baba

  • Cut butter into pieces and place in the bowl of a stand mixer along with the flour, honey, and salt. Place in freezer for 30 minutes.
  • Add half the amount of eggs, the yeast, and melted 24 g Cocoa Butter. Knead on the second speed setting, gradually adding the remaining eggs, until the dough pulls away from the edges of the bowl. Dough should be 75°F once kneaded.
  • Transfer dough to a piping bag and pipe into silicone ball-shaped molds and leave it to rise for 1 hour.
  • Bake, with the mold placed between 2 baking sheets, at 320°F for 20 minutes. Remove babas from molds and bake for an additional 5 minutes to brown.

Exotic Passion Fruit Syrup

  • Boil all ingredients, including the 22 g Vanilla Beans, together in a saucepan.
  • Cool syrup to 140°F and immerse babas. Leave to soak overnight.

Fusion Rum Whipped Ganache

  • Heat the first quantity of cream and add hydrated gelatin.
  • Pour over 114 g Valrhona Opalys 33% White Couverture Chocolate Feves and 19 g Prova Gourmet Fusion Rum Flavored Cocoa Butter and mix whilst adding the second quantity of cream.
  • Strain through a chinois and set aside overnight.
  • Whisk in a mixer and place in a piping bag with a fluted tip.

Exotic Fruit Glaze

  • Heat the fruit purées with first amount of caster sugar, 63 g Allez Belgian Glucose Syrup, and water.
  • Mix the pectin NH and second amount of caster sugar in a small bowl. Add to heated fruit mixture when it reaches 104°F.
  • Bring mixture to a boil and cook for 1 minute. Stir and chill.
  • Drain babas from syrup on a rack. Heat glaze to 113°F and glaze babas one at a time.

Decoration

  • Pipe Fusion Rum whipped ganache on the glazed babas.
  • Finish with zests and a little atsina cress.
    Enjoy!

Notes

Check out the video below to see the final product courtesy of Prova!
https://www.instagram.com/prova_gourmet/reel/CwYB_XRI6rb/