Biscuit à la Reine (Savoy Biscuit with Maraschino Bavarois)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Biscuit de Savoie composition
- Apricot cooked to the thread
- Pâte sèche base
- Cold syrup
- Crème de noyau
- Royal icing
- Bavarois au marasquin
Instructions
- Bake a Biscuit de Savoie composition in a manqué mould and let it cool.
- Stick the biscuit onto a base of pâte sèche with a little apricot cooked to the thread.
- Soak it with cold syrup flavoured with crème de noyau.
- Decorate it with royal icing from a paper cornet, around and on the edges.
- Mould a Bavarois au marasquin in a Richelieu mould of corresponding size and turn it out on top.