Raymond Blanc's Le Café Crème by Le Manoir

Chef Pâtissier Benoit Blin teaches you how to make the signature Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons restaurant dessert Le Café Crème, famed for being a notoriously challenging (but delicious) Raymond Blanc dessert. What is a Le Café Crème dessert? The Le Café Crème is a Raymond Blanc dessert made up of several different patisserie techniques - a coffee parfait and kirsch sabayon, a shaped coffee sponge, coffee caramel, chocolate sauce, a chocolate ganache, all served in a chocolate cup with a handle. This ground-breaking dessert took Raymond Blanc six months to perfect before it was ready to grace the tables of his restaurant Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons. The dish has been a complete triumph, and we’ve convinced Benoit to teach us the secrets behind this delectable dessert, as well as showing us his new twist on a delicious classic. You will learn to make Raymond Blanc’s infamous Café Crème and the chocolate coffee cup that you will present it in, to your astonished and delighted, friends and family. This course is part of the Tatler Dinner Party Menu collection of online cooking courses taught by legendary chefs. You'll learn: how to make the chocolate cup - including tempering chocolate and moulding the cup adding flavour to your chocolate how to make each layer of Le Café Crème - the sponge, ganache, sabayon, caramel and parfait decorating your Café Crème which dessert wines to serve with your finished dessert The course includes: On-demand video lesson - presented by Benoit Blin lifetime access to the videos, notes and interactive class flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like downloadable lesson notes and recipe access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop small interactive online classroom - chat online to students from around the world and share your creative ideas Time to complete Le Café Crème dessert course: Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 4 hours 40 minutes to complete including: Video lessons: 1 hour 10 minutes in total Course notes: 30 minutes Creating the Café Crème: at least 3 hours You'll need: A full list of ingredients is included in the class notes, but on top of chocolate and ingredients, if you're making the dessert you'll need a sugar thermometer, dariole moulds, a blast freezer, acetate sheets, paper piping cornet. The course is suitable for all students, but is most suitable for experienced cooks or professional chefs who want to learn about this signature dessert and the patisserie techniques used to create it. Ready to get started? Just add the course to your basket above. If you know someone who'd love this course then give it as a gift - just tick "This is a gift" at the checkout. Any questions? Contact us by clicking on the orange speech symbol - we'd love to hear from you.