Chocolate chestnut mousse

Why not welcome in Autumn with a luxury pastry? This recipe combines chocolate, chestnut and pistachio in a scrumptious pastry no one can refuse.
Level:
Easy

Pistachio chestnut bread

Ingredients: Pistachio chestnut bread

  • 250 g
    almond paste
  • 40 g
    pistachio paste

Preparation: Pistachio chestnut bread

Beat together with paddle attachments.

Ingredients: Pistachio chestnut bread

  • 5
    whole egg(s)

Preparation: Pistachio chestnut bread

Add. 

Ingredients: Pistachio chestnut bread

  • 45 g
    flour
  • 3 g
    baking powder

Preparation: Pistachio chestnut bread

Add.

Ingredients: Pistachio chestnut bread

  • 60 g
    butter
  • Q.S.
    candied chestnuts

Preparation: Pistachio chestnut bread

Cut the chestnuts into pieces, mix and add to the previous.

Spread on a baking tray in a layer of 1 cm thickness. Bake at 200°C.

Chestnut crème

Ingredients: Chestnut crème

  • 50 g
    butter

Preparation: Chestnut crème

Beat. 

Ingredients: Chestnut crème

  • 100 g
    chestnut paste
  • 100 g
    chestnut cream

Preparation: Chestnut crème

Add and mix. 

Ingredients: Chestnut crème

  • 10 g
    Whisky

Preparation: Chestnut crème

Mix in. 

Chocolate bavarois

Ingredients: Chocolate bavarois

  • 150 g
    milk
  • 1/2
    vanilla bean
  • 150 g
    cream
  • 4
    egg yolks
  • 70 g
    invert sugar

Preparation: Chocolate bavarois

Make an anglaise. 

Ingredients: Chocolate bavarois

Preparation: Chocolate bavarois

Melt and mix in the anglaise

Ingredients: Chocolate bavarois

  • 2 g
    gelatin

Preparation: Chocolate bavarois

Add.

Ingredients: Chocolate bavarois

  • 12 g
    whipped cream

Preparation: Chocolate bavarois

Add at 30°.