Taught by Benoit Blin
Raymond Blanc's Le Café Crème by Le Manoir
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Course overview
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.
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Le Café Crème
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- Video lesson tutorials led by your expert tutor
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If you choose Expert level, you get all of the above plus the following:
- Personalised assignment feedback and coaching from your expert tutor
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- Certificate of completion.
What is an online classroom?
Our online classroom has been developed to allow you to learn from our experts in a sociable environment alongside up to 20 other students. After each video tutorial led by your expert, you will be encouraged to practice what you have learned with optional assignments - these can be seen by the other students in your class, who are free to share their own thoughts and questions with you.
You will be encouraged to take part in an ongoing class discussion where you can discuss ideas, post images or work, and comment on each other’s assignments. It’s a great way to learn from other like-minded people who share your passion from all over the world.
This means not only do you benefit from people who are outstanding in their field, but also from a close-knit group of like-minded people whom you can learn alongside. Group learning has shown to greatly improve not just the experience of studying, but also how well you retain the knowledge, and we have built our classroom experience around this fact.
When can I start my course and how long will it take?
You can start your course any time within 12 months after receipt of your purchase confirmation email. Once you start, you’ll have lifetime access — meaning you can revisit the lesson videos and notes whenever you want.
Our courses are designed so that you can study at your own pace, some prefer to binge learn while others like to spread their studying over a longer period of time - it’s completely up to you. To give you a rough time frame, each lesson video is approximately 30-40 minutes long, and we recommend that you spend around an hour on each assignment.
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