Sandwich a la Citron Vert
Ingredients
Sweet Short Crust
- 454 g butter
- 227 g powder sugar
- 1 each vanilla bean
- 1 each lime zest
- 227 g egg yolk
- 680 g cake flour
- 2 salt
Lime Ganache
- 250 g cream
- 250 g milk
- 60 g trimoline
- 500 g Manjari chocolate
- 125 g butter
- 1 each lime zest
Instructions
Sweet Dough
- Cream butter, sugar, vanilla and lime zest together until homogenous. Add egg yolk slowly and scrape.
- Add sifted flour and salt. Do not over mix.
Lime Ganache
- Make ganache one day in advance.
- Cold infuse lime with cream and milk overnight. Strain.
- Bring cream, milk and trimoline to a boil. Pour over melted chocolate in three stages mixing well between each addition making sure to achieve a proper emulsion. Add butter. Blend to homogenize.
Assembly
- Roll sweet crust out to 1/8” thick. Cut with a 2” ring cutter. Place cookies on perforated silpat and bake @ 350 for 12 min or until golden brown. Allow to cool.
- Pipe lime ganache onto one baked cookie. Top with another baked cookie and garnish with chocolate stripes.