✦ Featured
Le Chaudron recipe
Polonais
Meringue-covered brioche with candied fruit cream
⏱ 90 minServes 8Medium520 kcal
A recipe from Le Chaudron — the cooking of France’s regions.
01 — Ingredients8 servings
1day-old brioche400 g (14 oz)
500 ml (2 cups)whole milk
120 g (4 oz)superfine sugar
4egg yolks
50 g (2 oz)cornstarch
100 g (3½ oz)chopped candied fruit
4 tbspdark rum
4egg whites- 200 g (7 oz)sugar
50 g (2 oz)sliced almonds- 1 tbsppowdered sugar
- 1 day-old brioche 400 g (14 oz)
- 500 ml (2 cups) whole milk
- 120 g (4 oz) superfine sugar
- 4 egg yolks
- 50 g (2 oz) cornstarch
- 100 g (3½ oz) chopped candied fruit
- 4 tbsp dark rum
- 4 egg whites
- 200 g (7 oz) sugar
- 50 g (2 oz) sliced almonds
- 1 tbsp powdered sugar
Quantities scaled for — some (egg, lemon, garlic…) are rounded to what’s practical.
Serves 8. In the app, quantities adjust to the number of guests on their own — and the ingredients go straight to your shopping list.
03 — Method
- Make a classic pastry cream with the milk, yolks, sugar and cornstarch, cooking 2 minutes while whisking.
- Off the heat, stir in the chopped candied fruit and the rum, press plastic wrap onto the surface and chill 1 hour.
- Cut the brioche into 1.5 cm (⅝ in) slices and lay them out to soak lightly.
- Beat the whites to stiff peaks in the stand mixer, then rain in the sugar for a smooth, glossy French meringue.
- Spread each slice generously with the candied fruit cream and stack them to re-form the loaf.
- Cover the whole loaf with meringue using a spatula, smoothing the sides and pulling up peaks on top.
- Sprinkle with sliced almonds and powdered sugar and bake 6 minutes at 220°C (430°F) to brown the meringue without drying it out.
This recipe is waiting for you, step by step.
Hands-free cooking mode, quantities that adjust themselves, a fridge that tells you if anything’s missing — and 2,798 regional recipes.
What the table says
No ratings yet — be the first to rate it.
No comments yet. Be the first to leave a review — from the app, or right here once signed in.
Your rating
★★★★★
To rate and comment here, sign in with the app — one scan and the site becomes your Chaudron. Your review also shows up in the app.