Eric Lanlard's Gateau Piedmontois

A lovely hazelnutty bake which is sure to impress !! Have a go at baking this and share your pictures so I can share them too...

Ingredients:

Hazelnut Biscuit:
200g roasted, ground hazelnuts
100g sugar
5 egg whites
50g flour

Hazelnut Mousse:
100 ml custard
150g unsalted butter
50 gr hazelnut

Italian meringue:
90 g egg whites
180g sugar
200g finely chopped milk chocolate

Glaze:
200g milk chocolate
100g unsalted butter, softened
100g chopped hazelnuts

Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Prepare two biscuits: Beat the egg whites until firm peaks, add the ground hazelnuts with the sugar and the flour and pipe two biscuits with a diameter of 25 cm on lined baking sheets with parchment paper. Let them bake for 20 minutes at 180°C.

2. Prepare the Italian meringue: mix the sugar with 125ml water and bring to a boil. Cook until the temperature reaches 120°C. Meanwhile beat the egg white and add the sugar syrup in a steady stream too. Beat until you have a firm meringue.

4. Whisk in the soft unsalted butter and 2 tablespoons of hazelnut. Fold in the Italian meringue.

5. Now put the cake together: cutting the biscuits in diameter so that they fit into a mold of 25 cm. Lay one biscuit on the bottom and cover with the hazelnut mousse. Put the second biscuit on top. Allow at least 30 minutes in the fridge.

6. For the icing: put the chopped hazelnuts in a food processor and mix vigorously. Put them in a large bowl. Mix the melted butter with the melted chocolate and add the hazelnuts. Remove the cake from the tin and pour the chocolate over the cooled cake. Flatten the glaze smooth with a palette knife. Finally, garnish with nuts and serve!

Enjoy and Happy Baking!! Eric xx

[lo]

My uncle/zio is from Piedmont. Love it! Thanks Eric

[tomber]

I would skip any meal to have a slice of this beauty

[Blackfire]

super beautiful & looks tasty too 😋😋😋

[jenniMCsweetea]

Eric, this looks I can't wait to give your take on this recipe a go, asap! Thank you bunches for sharing another wonderful recipe & you look especially handsome in this video! 😃👍😘

[garydaniels]

Super impressive this one, going to have to make 2 desserts if I'm to stay out of trouble, thankfully you have provided plenty of choice, i wonder if she will be satisfied with key lime pie, sorry to rub it in, no I'm not, fancy cutting a pie at a show and then telling everyone they can only watch rather than eat, can i sign a disclaimer next time, feel I've missed something, will have to visit Cake Boy. Great to meet you at the Cake and Bake show, we both had a really great day. Thank you Eric.

[danchurchillcooks]

E you are making me seriously frustrated looking at that from the other side of the world... knowing that i will only be 6 hours from you in NYC does help hahaha

[yanwu]

Love it! Could you please make another video about Mille-feuille?

[raffaelelagattolla]

Amazing recipe, thanks! I may well make this as a treat for work...FYI I think there's an error with the written quantities. Says you need 200g milk chocolate for the Italian meringue but I think that's wrong?

[nelolechef]

One advice please. Can i use shredded coconut instead of almonds or hazelnuts, for the meringue disks?

[morfeo]

hello eric... please might uploading your baba al ruhm recipe?? i love it... sorry for my english!!! it´s not my lenguaje

[enhyahs]

This recipe has more steps but looks delicious & in my opinion more efforts more best results 😊

[usakkizi]

I feel like you haven't been as cheery as before especially in this video and your last one :( It could just be me though. Hope all is well!

[mohdtaufikmohammad]

This is really unfair.... I also want to be as good as you