Charlotte Renaissance (Vanilla Bavarois Charlotte with Kirsch-Macerated Fruit)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Macerate the peeled, sliced raw apricots and peaches, the diced pineapple and the wild strawberries in kirsch beforehand.
  2. Mask the bottom of the mould with a round of white paper.
  3. Line the sides with the genoise rectangles iced white and pink, the iced side against the mould.
  4. Add the macerated fruit to the Bavarois à la Vanille composition and fill the lined mould with it.
  5. Set it on ice or in a cool place.
  6. Turn out the Charlotte, remove the round of paper and put in its place a round of pineapple cut from the widest part of the fruit, decorated with candied fruit.

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