Rum Baba with Chestnut Cream and Whipped Cream

Name: Rum Baba with Chestnut Cream and Whipped Cream
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 2 h 55 min
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 200 g flour; 5 g salt; 15 g sugar; 10 cl milk; 10 g baker's yeast; 2 eggs; 50 g soft butter; 80 cl water; 500 g sugar; 1 vanilla pod; 20 cl brown rum; 15 cl milk; 150 g chestnut cream; 1 tbsp cornstarch; 50 g sugar; 1 egg yolk; 2 g gelatine; 80 g butter; 1 vanilla pod; 30 cl high quality liquid cream cold; 1 dash rum

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Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Additional Time
2 hrs
Total Time
2 hrs 55 mins
Servings
2 servings
Course
Dessert
Cuisine
British

Rum Baba with Chestnut Cream and Whipped Cream

Iris Warren

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Ingredients

Servings

The baba dough:

200 g flour
5 g salt
15 g sugar
10 cl milk
10 g baker's yeast
2 eggs
50 g soft butter

The baba syrup:

80 cl water
500 g sugar
1 vanilla pod
20 cl brown rum

Creamy chestnut cream:

15 cl milk
150 g chestnut cream
1 tbsp cornstarch
50 g sugar
1 egg yolk
2 g gelatine
80 g butter

Vanilla whipped cream:

1 vanilla pod
30 cl high quality liquid cream cold

The finish:

1 dash rum

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Instructions

How to Make the Baba Dough:

In the vat of a mixer, mix the flour, salt and sugar.
In a saucepan, warm the milk (about 30°C/ 86 ℉ , check, if you have a thermometer).
Add the yeast and stir to dissolve it. Pour this warm milk over the flour with 1 egg and mix at low speed. As soon as the dough is homogeneous, add the second egg.
Stop the mixer. Pour the melted butter over the dough. Leave, without stirring, at room temperature until the butter goes under the dough. At this point, stir again to incorporate the butter.
Fill the baba moulds with the dough and let them grow at room temperature, so that they double in volume. Preheat the oven to 170 °C/ 338 ℉ (th. 5-6). Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
When they come out of the oven, remove the babas from the moulds, place them on a rack and leave them to cool.

How to Make Baba Syrup:

Boil the water, sugar and vanilla bean for a few seconds.
Remove from the heat, leave to cool and then pour in the rum.
When the syrup is cold, place the babas in it to immerse them completely.
Leave them to soak for 2 hours in the refrigerator, then drain them on a rack.

How to Make Creamy Chestnut Cream:

In a saucepan, heat the milk with the chestnut cream and cornflour, stirring with a whisk.
In a salad bowl, mix the sugar and the egg yolk. Plunge the gelatine into cold water for 2 or 3 minutes.
When the chestnut milk boils, pour over the egg and sugar mixture.
Mix and then pour it back into the pan and cook like a custard, over a low heat and stirring constantly.
Remove from the heat, add the well-drained gelatine and leave to cool (to 40° C/ 104 ℉, if you have a thermometer).
Stir in the butter cut into small pieces. Immediately pour the cream into serving bowls and leave to set in the fridge for 2 hours.

How to Make Vanilla Cream:

Cut the vanilla bean in half lengthwise.
Scrape the inside of the half pods with a small knife to remove the small black seeds. In a salad bowl, beat the very cold cream and vanilla seeds with an electric mixer.