Pecan Dacquoise With Orange Chocolate Cream
Developed for the Celebrate and Bake cooking class menu, this is so delicious, that you will be making it again and again….and again! It is not difficult, but does take some planning. You should look at making it a few hours prior to serving as it improves over time, even better if you can make it the day before you serve it. This is also featured in my first ever published cookbook For Food’s Sake!
Hopefully you will all find this on your Festive table this year, to great acclaim from all those whom you love!
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Need
- 300 Grams pecans
- 1 vanilla bean BUY
- 300 Grams raw caster sugar BUY
- 1 orange, zest finely grated
- 6 egg whites
- 2 Tablespoons cornflour or cornstarch
- 1 Teaspoon vanilla bean paste BUY
- 100 Grams chocolate coated coffee beans or nuts
- 600 Grams cream BUY
- 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder BUY
- A drizzle of Cointreau if desired
- 50 Grams chocolate orange dark BUY
Do
- 1
Toast pecans and vanilla bean on flat oven tray for 10 minutes by placing into a cold oven set to 200ºC. Set aside to cool. Reduce oven temperature to 160ºC.
- 2
Draw two x 18cm circles onto sheets of baking paper and place onto flat trays. Set aside.
- 3
Place vanilla bean into Thermomix bowl and a little of the sugar and mill 10 sec/speed 10. Remove from bowl and set aside.
- 4
Place cooled toasted nuts into Thermomix bowl and mill 8 sec/speed 8. Remove from bowl and set aside. Wipe out bowl.
- 5
Place sugar and zest into Thermomix bowl and mill 30 sec/speed 9. Reserve 2 tbsp sugar for cream filling.
- 6
Add egg whites, cornflour and vanilla sugar into Thermomix bowl and beat 6 min/60ºC/Butterfly/speed 3.
- 7
Remove butterfly. Add milled nuts to Thermomix bowl and incorporate 20 sec/Interval. Finish folding through if necessary with spatula by hand. Divide mixture between circles on trays. Allow to rest for 10-30 minutes if you have the time, otherwise, don’t worry about it!
- 8
Bake for 40 minutes. Remove from oven, cool slightly before lifting with a large flat spatula off the paper. Cool completely on wire rack.
- 9
In clean and dry Thermomix bowl place choc coated coffee beans and chop 3 sec/speed 6. Add reserved orange sugar, cream, and cocoa. Insert butterfly and whip cream till soft peaks form between 20-30 sec/speed 4. Top both dacquoise layers with this cream, bringing it almost to the edges. Do not completely scrape out the Thermomix bowl - in fact leave quite a lot of the cream in the bowl. Scrape all of it down so that it is around the blades.
- 10
Place chocolate into the bowl and melt 5 min/50ºC/speed 2. Drizzle over both layers, place one layer on top of the other, garnish with additional coffee beans or toasted pecans.
- 11
Refrigerate for up to 1 day before serving. The cake will slice a lot more easily if it has been in the fridge for 24 hours. However; do not worry about it if you don’t have the time…it is just as delicious when eaten immediately, just more difficult to cut!
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
