Marquise Alice (Pralined Bavarois Masked with Chantilly)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Bavarois praliné
- Biscuits à la cuiller
- Anisette
- Crème Chantilly
- Redcurrant jelly
- Puff pastry
- Pralin à Condé
Instructions
- Line a manqué mould inside with biscuits à la cuiller soaked with anisette and fill it with a pralined Bavarois.
- Turn it out onto the serving dish.
- Mask it entirely with a very even layer of very firm Crème Chantilly, sweetened and vanilla-flavoured.
- Trace parallel lines of redcurrant jelly on the top from a paper cornet, then cut across them with the point of a small knife.
- Mask small triangles of puff pastry with pralin à Condé and dry them in the oven.
- Surround the base with these triangles.