Nonnettes (French gingerbread cakes) 

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Informations and materials

 20 nonnettes made using this recipe 

RECIPE STEPS

1. Composition

INGREDIENTS
STEPS
  • Orange marmalade 
  • Gingerbread cake filling 
  • Glazing 

2. Orange marmalade

INGREDIENTS
  •  Untreated oranges 250g 53%
  • Sugar 200g 42% 
  • Glucose 25g 5% 
STEPS

 Cook the oranges in a pan full of water until you can easily stab them. 

Drain and mix as finely as possible. 

Add the sugar and glucose and cook in the pan until the liquid has evaporated. 

Put to one side 

3. Gingerbread cake

INGREDIENTS
  •  Whole milk 94.18g
  • Star anise 6.75g
  • Marmalade 215.46g
  • Chestnut honey 107.69g
  • Butter 86.08g
  • Brown sugar 107.69g 
  • Glucose 86.08g
  • Whole wheat flour 161.43g
  • 45 flour 26.64g
  • Baking powder 10.81g
  • Cinnamon 6.75g
  • 4 spices 3.15g
STEPS

Cold brew the milk and star anise the day before. Temper the marmalade and chestnut honey. 

Add cream to the butter and brown sugar, then add the orange marmalade, the chestnut honey, the glucose, the two flours with baking powder, the cinnamon, the 4 spices, and finally the eggs and the milk (which has been previously filtered through a strainer). 

4. Glazing

INGREDIENTS
  • French simple syrup (30 Baumé) 100g
  • Icing powder 190g
STEPS

Mix the two ingredients and put to one side. 

5. Assembly

INGREDIENTS
STEPS

On a baking tray with a Silpat, arrange twenty buttered and floured nonnette rings (4.5cm high and 6cm diameter). Fill each ring with 50g of cake filling. Bake in a ventilated oven at 165°C for 18 minutes. Remove the rings immediately and let the cakes cool to ambient temperature. 

6. Finishing and decoration

INGREDIENTS
STEPS

Fill each nonnette with 18g of marmalade, glaze them on a shelf and put them in a ventilated oven for 1 minute at 190°C. 

7. Conservation

INGREDIENTS
STEPS

One week at ambient temperature under a plate cover (cloche) 

8. Recommended drinks

INGREDIENTS
STEPS

Coffee, tea, mineral water

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