Very Chocolaty, Crispy Mille-feuille

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Ingredients

Serves 6

Chocolate pastry leaves

• 3/5 cup (80 g) flour
  
• 3 egg whites
  
• 1/3 cup (75 g) butter
  
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder
  
• 4 tbsp whipping cream
  
• 1 tbsp sugar
  
• 1 good pinch salt
  

Chocolate ganache

• 10 ½ oz (300 g) dark chocolate (70% cocoa)
  
• 1 2/3 cups (400 ml) whipping cream
  
• 1/3 cup (70 g) butter
  
• 2 unwaxed lemons
  

To decorate the cake

• 1 tbsp cocoa
  
• 1 tbsp icing sugar

Preparation

To make the chocolate pastry leaves

• Melt the butter in a saucepan and clarify it by filtering it through a muslin cloth.
• Set aside
  
• Mix the flour and egg whites in a bowl, and then add the cocoa, sugar, cream, salt and finally the clarified butter
  
• Mix well and leave to cool for 1 hour in the refrigerator
  
• After an hour, preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C)
  
• Place a sheet of parchment paper on a baking tray
  
• Place 1/3 of the pastry on top and roll it out in quite a thin circle or rectangle, depending on the shape of the plate the cake will be served on
  
• Bake in the oven for 6 minutes
  
• Follow the same steps for the two other pastry discs
  
• Allow to cool on a rack

To make the ganache

• Wash and zest the lemons
  
• Cut the butter into cubes
  
• Pour the cream into a saucepan and heat without letting it boil
  
• When it is hot, pour in the lemon zest and infuse for 15 minutes
  
• While the zest is infusing, grate the chocolate into a bowl. Filter the cream and pour in onto the chocolate, stirring vigorously
  
• Add the cubes of butter, whisking constantly
  
• Let it cool

Assembly

• When everything has cooled down completely, place a sheet of chocolate pastry onto the serving dish
  
• Put half of the ganache into a pastry bag and cover the pastry with ganache
  
• Place a second sheet of chocolate pastry on top and cover with more ganache
  
• Put the final sheet of pastry on top of the ganache and sprinkle with a mix of icing sugar and cocoa powder
  
• Put in the refrigerator or somewhere very cool for 4 hours before serving.

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