The matcha green tea macarons that I shared last week were delightful by themselves, but I really wanted to incorporate them some way into an entremet cake.
That’s where this chocolate and matcha green tea entremet with a chewy dark chocolate brownie layer, vanilla crémeux, chocolate joconde cake, a thin layer of matcha mousse, glaçage au chocolat, and, of course, a matcha macaron comes in.
In 1991 Hidemi Sugino won the World Pastry Cup with the Ambroisie, an entremet made with pistachio and chocolate joconde, homemade raspberry jam, dark chocolate and pistachio mousse, and a mirror glaze.
In 2013 I tried to recreate it. I think I did pretty well.
The BBC television show Doctor Who follows The Doctor and his companion as they travel through time and space saving alien civilizations and often the Earth. The Doctor himself is an alien from the planet Gallifrey who travels in a time machine disguised as a police public call box from mid-20th century London.
The time machine, called a TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), is easily recognized by any Doctor Who fan. In order to celebrate my brother R’s birthday, and the upcoming 50th year anniversary of one of my favourite television shows, I decided to bake a TARDIS cake. I built a time machine out of cake.
