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Almond praline & tahitian vanilla flan

An imposingly high, meltingly-soft and vanilla-flavored flan, with a delicious almond praline base and a crunchy shortbread pastry

  • Pastry
Duration
1h20
Level
Intermediate
Content
9 videos

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Techniques covered

  • Making a sweet pastry dough using a mixer
  • Using the "rub in" method (sablage)
  • Cutting sweet pastry dough
  • Rolling out sweet pastry dough
  • Blind baking a dough using a ring
  • Pre-baking a sweet pastry dough
  • Lining a tart ring
  • Lining a tall ring
  • Preparing a shiny egg wash
  • Egg washing a pre-baked pie crust
  • Roasting dried fruit in the oven
  • Making a dry caramel
  • Scraping a vanilla pod
  • Mixing a preparation in a food processor
  • Making praline
  • Filling a piping bag
  • Infusing milk or cream
  • Making a vanilla-flavored flan mix
  • Making a set cream filling
  • Thinning a mix
  • Mixing with a hand blender
  • Baking a flan
  • Using a piping bag
  • Thinning a cream
  • Baking set cream in the oven
  • Assembling a flan
  • Making decorative shavings
  • Grating dried fruits
  • Decorating with dried fruit

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