A Charlotte is a type of dessert that can be served hot or cold. Bread, sponge cake or biscuits/cookies are used to line a mould, which is then filled with a fruit puree or custard. It can also be made using layers of breadcrumbs. So in easy terms, its something cakey and something creamy. Here is my take...
I used Pate a Choux and made cream puffs which I filled with chocolate mouse. I then layered them in the bottom of a 9" cake pan and froze them. I whipped up a raspberry Bavarian cream and topped the cream puffs with it. Then into the fridge! When the cream set up I turned it out of the pan and topped the whole Charlotte with chocolate sauce and powder sugar!
I love flavors of raspberry and chocolate together. With the creaminess of the Bavarian and the sharpness of the chocolate mouse this was a winner!!!
This too can be made with any flavor Bavarian cream and the cream puffs can be filled with pastry cream, Chantilly cream, white chocolate mouse or anything you can think of! The ideas are endless!!!
Cupcakes and kisses!
2 comments:
What a wonderful combo: raspberry and chocolate! Another yummo-yummo! Altho this dessert looks like it would be messy to eat, is that true?
~~joannie
No, its not messy. Bavarian cream contains gelatin so it sets up well. The downside of gelatin is that after a day or two you can taste it, which some people like, I do not. This is a dessert that you would make in the morning and serve that evening or the next day. Thhe nice thing is the cream puffs can be made and frozen so its not much work!
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