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Jesus Escalera
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Jesus Escalera
He admits that he never had a sweet tooth, but At the same time, he is a Sweet Advisor with his
being in the dessert department of that company SweetConcept, providing dessert
restaurant totally changed his way of seeing all consulting and training to renowned
the possibilities that the sweet world could oer. restaurants, and is in charge of the Postrería
Taller as well as Kitchen Teachen.
After directing as head chef the Benazuza
restaurant in Cancun, he decided to realize a He has been named Latin American Best Pastry
project he had in mind years ago, a place Chef by the famous list The World 50 Best
dedicated exclusively to the restaurant dessert Restaurant, as well as recognized as one of the
and sweet world, giving rise to La Postrería, 100 most creative people in Mexico 2022 by the
recognized as best Sweet Experience of Mexico well-known publication Forbes.
in 2015, also as one of the 120 best restaurants in
Mexico for 4 consecutive years. He is currently a judge on BAKE OFF Mexico, a
television program on HBO MAX.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Jesús Escalera
Molding Techniques in Pastry
I base my work on
aromas. I start from an
ingredient and from
there I make the taste
combinations.
- Jesus Escalera
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Sweet peanuts
15 pax 10 min
Rest: 1 h 30 min Mimetic peanuts
Ingredients Preparation
● 80 g roasted peanut paste ● Mix the peanut paste with the melted and tempered
● 120 g blond chocolate 32%. chocolate using the desired method.
● Silicone mold in the shape of
peanuts ● With the help of a piping bag, fill the molds flush and
vibrate the mold very well to eliminate possible air
bubbles.
Note: For nut pastes, roast the fruit of choice and grind it in a
blender or processor until a fine paste is obtained (up to 10% of
neutral flavored oil can be added if necessary to make it more
fluid).
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Chili bonbon
8 pax 15 min
Rest: 12 h Toasted chili ganache
Ingredients Preparation
● 205 g cream ● Deseed the chiles, cut into 1 cm strips and toast lightly
● 46 g milk on a griddle until they begin to release a lile of their
● 16 g dried chipotle natural oil (they will become slightly shiny).
● 15 g glucose or inverted sugar
● 182 g chocolate Amazonía 75% ● Add the cream to the chiles and bring to a boil. Add the
● 31 g buer milk and turn o the heat. Proceed to infuse according
● 20 g "Ancho Reyes" liqueur or to the preference of the spiciness. In half an hour we
mezcal obtain a light spiciness, while in 12 hours, something
● Silicone mold in the shape of a chili more intense.
bell pepper
● Once infused, reheat to about 60°C, mix with the
glucose and strain.
● Keep in sleeve.
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● Fill the chili molds, vibrate to eliminate possible air
bubbles and freeze.
Note: When freezing, the mold must be covered with cling film
to prevent it from absorbing moisture. Can be frozen for up to 3
months.
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Chili bonbon
8 pax 5 min
Dark red chocolate bath
Ingredients Preparation
● 360 g Peruvian chocolate 62%. ● Melt the buer and chocolate. Mix together.
● 30 g cocoa buer
● liposoluble red dye ● Add the red coloring and mix with a turmixer.
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Chili bonbon
8 pax 5 min
Chili green chocolate bath
Ingredients Preparation
● 360 g milk chocolate 33%. ● Melt the buer and chocolate. Mix together.
● 30 g cocoa buer
● liposoluble yellow dye ● Add the colorants and mix with a turmixer.
● liposoluble green dye
● Store in a covered container at room temperature until
use.
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Chili bonbon
8 pax 7 min
Bathing and finishing of the
Ingredients
chili peppers
Preparation
● Frozen roasted chile ganache (p. 6) ● Melt the 2 chocolate baths separately (deep red and
● Intense red chocolate bath (pg. 7) chili green) and temper with the desired method.
● Chili green chocolate bath (page 8)
● Candied habanero chili peppers ● Unmold the chiles, prick them with a pin and dip them
tails in the chocolate, covering them completely.
Note: Once thawed, they will have a shelf life of 1 week under
refrigeration at room temperature.
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Note: These croutons are roasted the same day the tablets
are made.
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Mimetic walnut
6 pax 5 min
Walnut shells
Ingredients Preparation
● Blond chocolate 32%. ● Melt the chocolate and temper with the desired
● Thermoforming walnut shell mold. method.
● Place in a piping bag and fill the half walnut pvc molds.
Vibrate to eliminate possible bubbles.
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Mimetic walnut
6 pax 5 min
Crunchy gianduja stuing
Rest: 2 h
Ingredients Preparation
● 120 g praliné de castilla 60/40 ● On the other hand, melt the 62% chocolate and the
● 12 g feuilletine buer separately, mix and temper (45°C / 31°C).
● 95 g Peruvian chocolate 62%
● 14 g Cocoa buer ● Once tempered, mix with the walnut praline and the
● Chocolate walnut shells (p. 14) feuilletine.
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Mimetic walnut
6 pax 5 min
Mimetic walnuts
Ingredients Preparation
● Filled and unfilled chocolate nut ● Unmold the nut shells carefully so as not to break
shells. them.
● Castile walnuts
● Place the halves with filling on a plaer and place half a
walnut in each one.
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Beet pot
3 pax 10 min
62% chocolate pot
Rest: 1 h
Ingredients Preparation
● Peruvian Chocolate 62%. ● Melt and temper the chocolate (45°C / 31°C)
● Thermoformed flower pot molds
● Fill the pot mold flush, vibrate well and pour out the
excess chocolate.
● Using a heat gun, heat a metal tray and polish the top
edge of the pot.
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Beet pot
3 pax 20 min
Cooked chocolate mousse
Cooking: 18 min
Ingredients Preparation
● 180 g egg whites ● Half whip a French meringue with the egg whites and
● 50 g sugar sugar.
● 80 g buer
● 180 g chocolate 62% (melted) ● Whisk together the melted chocolate, buer and egg
● 100 g egg yolks yolks.
● 100 g chopped chocolate 62 %
● 15 g cocoa bean ● When it is integrated, add the meringue.
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Beet pot
3 pax 10 min
Beet puree
Cooking time: 30 min
Ingredients Preparation
● 500 g beets ● Put the raw beet with skin in plenty of water.
● 2 g xanthan
● Bring to a boil, lower the heat and cook for 25 - 30
minutes (will vary depending on the size of this).
Note: The xanthan will help to emulsify the mixture so that the
solids (fibers) do not separate from the liquid (water).
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Beet pot
3 pax 10 min
Beet mousse
Ingredients Preparation
● 400 g beet puree (p. 19) ● Mix the powdered gelatin with the sugar. Then add the
● 50 g sugar mixture to half of the cold beet puree.
● 10 g gelatin powder 290° B
● 160 Italian or Swiss meringue ● Heat to 70-80°C while stirring well so that the gelatin
● 370 g semi whipping cream is diluted.
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Beet pot
3 pax 10 min
Lime peel and basil puree
Cooking: 25 min
Ingredients Preparation
● 60 g lime peel (without albedo) ● Whiten the lime peel 2 times starting from cold water.
● white)
● 60 g sugar ● Blanch a third time and, when it starts to boil, cook for
● 50 g lime juice 30 minutes.
● 10 g basil leaves
● 20 g buer ● Grind the skins with the juice, basil and sugar in a
blender.
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Beet pot
3 pax 5 min
Cocoa Streussel
Cooking: 20 min
Ingredients Preparation
● 75 g almond powder ● Mix the first 5 ingredients until a homogeneous dough
● 75 g buer is obtained.
● 75 g flour
● 75 g sugar ● Break with your hands on a baking sheet with paper or
● 20 g cocoa powder silpat and cool in the refrigerator.
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Beet pot
3 pax 5 min
Finishing and Presentation
Ingredients Preparation
● Chocolate pot 62% (page 17) ● Sprinkle cocoa on the outside of the chocolate pot to
● Beet mousse (p. 20) give an earthy finish.
● Lime peel and basil puree (p. 21)
● Streussel (p. 22) ● Fill ¾ parts of a pot with the beet mousse and freeze.
● Cooked mousse (p. 18)
● Cocoa powder ● Fill 0.5 cm of lime peel puree.
● Purple basil
● Place 25 g of crumbled cooked mousse around it and
place a half-sphere of frozen beet mousse in the
center.
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Violets
6 pax 10 min
Wafer flowers
Cooking: 7 h
Ingredients Preparation
● 175 g plain yogurt ● Put the fruit puree, yogurt, sugar, methylcellulose and
● 75 g black currant and/or blackberry xanthan in the blender. Make a homogeneous, thick
puree and fine cream.
● 50 g powdered sugar
● 2.5 g methyl cellulose ● Stretch over the flower-shaped template on a silpat.
● 2 g xanthan
● Template with violet shape ● Remove the template, outline the flower shape and
dehydrate at 50-70°C for 1-2 hours.
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Violets
6 pax 10 min
Fluid blackberry fruit paste
Rest: 3 h
Ingredients Preparation
● 100 sugar ● Place the blackberry puree and glucose in a saucepan
● 3 g yellow pectin over medium heat.
● 250 g blackberry puree (strained)
● 25 g glucose ● When it starts to heat up to about 50°C, gradually add
● 3 g citric acid the sugar mixed with the pectin while stirring
● 3 g water continuously.
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Violets
6 pax 5 min
Violet ice cream centers
Ingredients Preparation
● 90 g milk ● Disperse the gelatin in part of the cold milk.
● 2.5 g gelatin powder 290° B
● 80 g cream 35% m.g. ● On the other hand, heat the cream, the other part of
● 25 g glucose the milk and the glucose to approximately 80°C (176°
● 24 drops violet extract F).
● 2 drops of purple gel dye
● Mold for violet centerpieces ● Add the gelatin mass, and let it cool for a few minutes.
● Mold for small silicone spheres
● Add the violet extract and 2 drops of purple coloring.
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Violets
6 pax 2 min
Finishing and presentation
Ingredients Preparation
● Yogurt and black currant wafer (p. ● Add a dot of pâte de fruit and the frozen violet centers.
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● Pâte de fruit de mora (page 26) ● To enhance the flavor, you can finish with a drop of
● Violet ice cream centers (p. 27) natural violet extract.
● Natural violet extract
● Serve this finger food on a plate with stones.
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Mandarin
cheesecake
9 pax 35 min
Cream cheese and mandarin
Rest: 4 h
cream
Ingredients Preparation
● 440 g cream ● Disperse the gelatin with the milk and let it hydrate.
● 120 g milk
● 10 g gelatin powder 290° B ● Heat the cream, remove from the heat and add the
● 300 g cream cheese mandarin zest (without white albedo). Cover with cling
● 160 g sugar film, leave to infuse for 15-30 minutes and strain.
● Zest of 4 tangerines
● 20 g tangerine juice ● Pour over the cream cheese together with the gelatin
● 45 g mandarin liqueur mass and sugar. Mix with turmix until homogeneous.
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Mandarin
cheesecake
9 pax 15 min
Rest: 20 min Gelatin bath
Ingredients Preparation
● 750 g milk ● Heat the milk and infuse with the tangerine zest (20
● 5 g kappa minutes).
● Red dye in gel
● Yellow dye in gel ● Strain and add the kappa and the coloring.
● 2 tangerines (zest only)
● Mix with the turmixer without adding too much air to
avoid foaming.
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Mandarin
cheesecake
9 pax 25 min
Rest: 2 h 10 min Mandarin shapes
Ingredients Preparation
● 1 kg whipped cream ● Fill balloons with the mousse, avoiding air bubbles
● 750 g kappa bath inside them, achieving a weight of approximately 90 g.
● Balloons N° 9
● Freeze.
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Mandarin
cheesecake
9 pax 6 min
Finishing and presentation
Ingredients Preparation
● Streussel cocoa (pg. 22) ● On a plate, place a dot of mandarin peel puree.
● Cooked mousse (p. 18)
● Mandarin peel puree (p. 21) ● Place 25 g of crumbled cooked mousse on top of the
● Basil, lemon verbena or spearmint streusel.
leaves
● Place the mandarin on top and put some fresh herb
leaves.
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Camembert
Cheesecake
6 pax 15 min
Cooking: 12 min Camembert cheesecakes
Ingredients Preparation
● 144 g egg ● Blend everything until it is a homogeneous and fine
● 20 g cornstarch cream.
● 50 g natural yogurt
● 120 g cream ● Cut strips of baking paper, crumple them and stretch
● 65 g sugar them again.
● 25 g yogurt powder
● 110 g artisan camembert ● Line the cylindrical molds of 7 cm in diameter so that
● 125 g cream cheese the edges are very marked.
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Camembert
Cheesecake
6 pax 7 min
Pistole cheeses
Ingredients Preparation
● 125 g cocoa buer ● Melt the chocolate and buer separately. Mix the
● 100 g white chocolate chocolate and buer together.
● Liposoluble white dye
● Frozen cakes (page 32) ● Dilute the white color and homogenize with a turmix.
● At about 40°C put the mixture into the gun and spray
the cheeses until they are completely white.
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Camembert
Cheesecake
6 pax 5 min
Toasted honey jelly
Ingredients Preparation
● 100 g honey ● Disperse the gelatin in ⅓ of the cold water.
● 200 g water
● 4 g gelatin powder 290° B ● Put the honey to toast in a small pot and add the other
⅔ parts of water (hot) until it is diluted with the honey.
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Camembert
Cheesecake
6 pax 6 min
Finishing and presentation
Ingredients Preparation
● Pistoleados cheeses (p. 33) ● Remove the cheeses from the freezer, cut a wedge
● Toasted pine nuts and place them on a plate.
● Toasted honey jelly (p. 34)
● Raisins with sherry wine ● On the side, heap a spoonful of caramelized pine nuts
with raisins and broken toasted honey jelly.
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Recommended Equipment
❏ Silicone mold in the shape of ❏ Pins
peanuts
❏ Turmix or food processor
❏ Silicone mold in the shape of a chili
bell pepper ❏ Disposable sleeves
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Máximo Cabrera
Panes sin Gluten de Fermentación Natural
Dry ingredients
Wholemeal
Flour Cornstarch Almond meal Grated coconut
flour
Buer, margarine
Chocolate
Sugar Powder Sugar Cocoa/ cacao and cream
chips
cheese
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Panes sin Gluten de Fermentación Natural
VOLUME CONVERSION
1 ounce 30 ml
1 ounce 2 spoons
TEMPERATURE CONVERSION
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Panes sin Gluten de Fermentación Natural
Allergen Guide
Cereals Dairy
Molluscs Eggs
Peanuts Sesame
Celery Crustaceans
Fish Nuts
Soy Mustard
Sulphites Lupins
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