Marzipan viennese puff king cake

Marzipan viennese puff king cake

Guillaume Cabrol
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1h35
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A dazzlingly original King cake, elegantly layered with strips of flaky Viennese bread dough, and generously filled with a frangipane cream insert boastin a powerful taste of raw almonds.
Marzipan viennese puff king cake
Completion time
Preparation
1h35
Cooking
1h23
Resting
6h00
Techniques taught
  • Balling up dough
  • Encasing butter into a dough
  • Flour a work surface
  • Scraping a vanilla pod
  • Shaping butter prior to the layering process
  • Placing an insert inside a dough
  • Shape a dough prior to the layering process
  • Kneading Viennese bread dough with a mixer
  • Dough proofing
  • Making an insert
  • Giving a single fold
  • Making a pastry cream
  • Putting a finishing touch on a viennoiserie
  • Preparing a powder using a blender
  • Placing an insert inside a mold
  • Cooking a cream
  • Decorating a King cake
  • Flavoring a cream
  • Making marzipan-flavored cream
  • Preparing an opaline
  • Rolling out scraps of dough
  • Creating a decoration using puff pastry with visible layer
  • Making a Viennese bread dough with visible layers
  • Caramelizing with opaline
  • Making puff pastry strips

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Étape 1 : Pastry cream

Guillaume Cabrol
Guillaume Cabrol
Head Baker l Four Seasons, George V, Paris
Head Baker l Four Seasons, George V, Paris

Étape 2 : Marzipan-flavored cream

Étape 3 : Kneading the viennese bread dough and proofing

Étape 4 : Layering: 3 single folds

Étape 5 : Rolling out the dough & cutting strips of visible layers

Étape 6 : Marzipan-flavored cream insert

Étape 7 : Assembling the cake & final proof

Étape 8 : Opaline powder

Étape 9 : Baking and caramelizing with opaline

Guillaume CabrolGuillaume Cabrol

Guillaume Cabrol

Head Baker l Four Seasons, George V, Paris

Guillaume Cabrol is the Head Baker at the Four Seasons George V Palace in Paris.

Guillaume Cabrol began his career in pastry-making, before branching out into bakery, curious to discover the secrets of leavened dough. It was a true revelation for him and he set out to make it his life's work.

He began his career as Chef de Partie at the Hôtel Plaza Athénée, the prestigious Parisian luxury hotel run by Alain Ducasse, where he was in charge of creating all the breads for the establishment's gourmet restaurant. In 2015, he was promoted to Head Baker. A few years later, Guillaume Cabrol moved on to another Parisian palace: the Four Seasons George V, where he also serves as Head Baker.

Guillaume Cabrol's job duties go far beyond creating new products: he is there to support and guide his teams, pass on his passion, share his know-how and teach new generations excellency in the art of baking. For him, his work is above all about transmitting emotions and childhood memories...

For VoilaChef, Guillaume Cabrol presents his vision of bakery: a gourmet, regressive adventure, full of childhood memories: sweet fougasses with orange blossom, a puff Viennese marzipan King cake and his famous signature apple turnovers.

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