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title: Easter Dessert Recipe | Pastry1 Magazine
description: Get the recipe for this decadent Easter dessert in Pastry1 Magazine. Recipe developed by Nicolas Léger.
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# [Easter Dessert Recipe | Pastry1 Magazine](https://www.parisgourmet.com/magazine/easter-dessert-recipe)

 Written by [Charlotte Brown](https://www.parisgourmet.com/magazine/author/charlotte-brown) | May 6, 2026 1:42:45 AM

BY NICOLAS LÉGER

POPCORN CRISP - ABINAO CRÉMEUX - FLOURLESS SPONGE CAKE - VANILLA CARAMEL  
KALINGO CHOCOLATE MOUSSE - DARK CHOCOLATE GLAZE

Makes ten desserts 18 cm in diameter and 4.5 cm high with a 80 mm hole in the center - ref. 94001267 (Maison Petit)

CHEF'S TIP: Make sure to observe the temperature when making the mousse

 

## popcorn crisp

INGREDIENTS:  
145 g crushed sablé dough  
185 g 40% milk chocolate couverture  
185 g 34% Zephyr couverture  
75 g cocoa butter  
90 g hazelnut paste  
280 g prali pop (corn praliné)  
145 g feuilletine

METHOD:  
Bake the sablé dough and, once cooled, lightly blend in a food  
processor®.  
Melt the chocolates and cocoa butter and stir into the hazelnut  
paste and praline pop.  
Finish with the feuilletine and crushed sablé dough.

 

## abinao CRÉMEUX

INGREDIENTS:  
2.5 g gelatin powder 200 blooms  
15 g water  
865 g whole milk  
465 g Abinao 85% chocolate  
3 g salt bloom

METHOD:  
Hydrate the gelatin.  
Heat the milk and add the gelatin, then pour over the chocolate and salt bloom and blend.

 

## flourless sponge cake

INGREDIENTS:  
400 g egg yolks  
150 g sugar  
615 g egg whites  
465 g sugar  
170 g cocoa powder

METHOD:  
Whisk together the yolks and 150 g sugar.  
Beat the egg whites with the 465 g sugar.  
Gently combine the two mixtures and finish with the sifted cocoa powder.  
Spread on a sheet of baking paper (600 g per sheet).  
Bake in a convection oven at 190°C for seven minutes.  
Cut into disks 18 cm in diameter. Pierce the center of the disk with a cookie cutter 8 cm in diameter.

 

## vanilla caramel

INGREDIENTS:  
1 1/2 vanilla pods  
715 g 35% fat liquid cream  
45 g sugar  
3 g pectin NH 325  
250 g glucose  
405 g sugar  
370 g butter  
3 g salt bloom

METHOD:  
Infuse the vanilla in the liquid cream. Blend and strain. Add the 45 g of sugar and the NH pectin to the cream and blend.  
Make a caramel cooked to 175°C using the glucose and the 405 g of sugar. Uncook with the vanilla cream, then cool to 50°C.  
Add the butter in small pieces and the salt bloom, then blend.  
Store.

 

## kalingo chocolate mousse

INGREDIENTS:  
4 g gelatin powder 200 blooms  
28 g water  
360 g whole milk  
505 g Kalingo 65% chocolate  
2 g salt bloom  
795 g 35% fat whipped cream

METHOD:  
Hydrate the gelatin.  
Heat the milk to 85°C, then add the gelatin.  
Pour the mixture over the Kalingo chocolate and blend.  
Cool to 45-50°C, then gradually stir in the salt bloom and whipping cream.

 

## dark chocolate glaze

INGREDIENTS:  
105 g water  
215 g glucose  
215 g superfine sugar  
145 g condensed milk  
14 g gelatin powder 200 blooms  
84 g water  
215 g 64% dark chocolate couverture

METHOD:  
Heat the water, glucose and sugar to boiling. Stir in the condensed milk, then the hydrated gelatin, and finally the chocolate.  
Blend and store overnight before use.  
Use at a temperature of 30°C.

 

## assembly

METHOD:  
Assembly is carried out in successive layers directly in the mold.  
Start with the popcorn crisp, leave to set in the refrigerator. Next pipe the vanilla caramel, then add a ring of flourless sponge cake.  
Freeze.  
Then add the Abinao crémeux, followed by another ring of flourless sponge cake. Finish with the Kalingo mousse. Freeze.  
Glaze with dark chocolate glaze.  
Decorate with "Happy Easter" lettering and a chocolate egg.

 

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