Rum baba with diplomat cream
Ready in
7 hours
Preparation
3 hours*
Cooking
30 min
Portions
15 Pieces
Cost
chip
difficulty
medium
babà cà crema
Rum Baba with diplomat cream and black cherries
Italian Rum Baba, as already said several times in my recipes, is the balance of perfect things, it has an amber color but not burnt, it must be wet but not soaked. As a famous Italian showgirl says, in one of her songs, “Babà is a serious thing”, in fact this dessert requires a particular dough but, once you have learned the technique with my explanations described in the steps you find in the recipe, you will learn immediately. From these indications you can make any type or shape you want in fact in addition to the diplomatic cream baba, for example, you will also find the recipes of the “Rum Baba cake with cream and black cherries”, “Rum Babà cake” and “Affogato Rum Baba“.
Ingredients
dough
- 250g flour 00
- 75g butter
- 25g sugar
- 3 whole eggs
- 5g salt
- 12g brewer’s yeast
wetting
- 4 liter water
- 500g sugar
- 4 organic lemon
- 600 ml liqueur for dessert or rum
Diplamat cream
- 500 ml sweet heavy whipping cream
- 500 ml milk
- 100g flour 00
- 100g sugar
- 3 whole eggs
- 1 organic lemon peel
- 100 ml liqueur for dessert or rum
Polishing
- 20g cornstarch
- 20g apricot jam
- 40g sugar
- 8 lemon drops
- 250 ml water
Decoration
- 150 g black cherries in syrup
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Directions
In the bowl of the stand mixer, put the flour, crumbled brewer’s yeast, salt and sugar. Attach the leaf whisk and mix on medium speed for 3 minutes
Still with the planetary mixer running at medium speed, add the eggs, one at a time, waiting for the flour to absorb the previous one to add the other
While the planetary mixer continues to knead, cut the butter at room temperature into small pieces and add it to the dough a little at a time, exactly as you did with the eggs
Work at medium speed for 2 minutes, then gradually bring it to maximum and let it work for 1 minute, then gradually go down to zero, let it stay off for 1 minute
After one minute, turn on the planetary mixer again and always a little at a time bring it to the maximum, let it work for 2 minutes at the most then lower the speed to zero, let it rest for 1 minute
Turn the planetary mixer back on and do the same operation described in the previous step, that is, bring from zero to maximum, let it work for 2 minutes and go down to zero. At this point the dough must be elastic
Remove the bowl from the planetary mixer and put it to rise in the oven for 2 hours or until it has become very swollen
Grease the baba molds, flour and remove the excess flour
Take the bowl from the oven, disassemble the dough, that is, with your hands or a silicone spatula, you detach it from the edges of the bowl, so it becomes once again as it was before rising
With a spoon pour the dough into the buttered molds reaching a maximum of half, now place the filled molds in a pan and put them to rise in the off oven for about 1 hour or until the baba dome forms
Remove the pan with the molds from the oven, turn on the oven at 180°C (350°F) in static mode, when it has reached temperature, about 5 minutes, put them in the oven and cook for about 30 minutes or until they are golden brown. Remove from the oven and put them to cool covered with a tablecloth
While the baba cools we prepare the syrup. Pour 4 liters of water into a large pot, add the peels of the 4 lemons, the sugar and boil for 30 minutes over high heat, or until it has reduced to two thirds, turn off, let it cool, then add half. some rum
Now prepare the custard, in a saucepan boil the milk with the lemon peel
In the planetary mixer or with the electric mixer, whip the eggs with the sugar, add the flour and mix
Let it cool itself in the pot or in a large bowl, the important thing is that you turn it from time to time so that the patina on top does not form
In a large bowl pour the syrup, then put 3 or 4 babas at a time and from time to time press them gently with your hands until they are soaked well
As soon as the babas are well soaked, gently squeeze them one by one between both hands and then place them in a tray with high sides. Repeat the last 2 steps until they are all soaked
Now sprinkle all the baba with the remaining rum and put them in the fridge to rest
Meanwhile the babas rest in the fridge, prepare the gelatin for polishing. Take a saucepan, pour the cornstarch, sugar and mix the powders well
Add the water a little at a time and always turn it so as not to form lumps
At this point, always stirring, add a few drops of lemon
After having incorporated the lemon well, add the apricot jam
Always stirring, cook the mixture over medium heat for a few minutes, when it begins to thicken, turn off and let it cool for 10 minutes
Now with the use of a pastry brush, brush the jelly all over the baba
Put the custard in the bowl of the planetary mixer, pour the rum, turn the planetary mixer on medium fast and blend for 5 minutes with the whisk, turn off, remove the cream and wash both the bowl and the whisk well, otherwise the whip cream will not whip
Whip the whip cream well making it compact
Now pour the custard into the whipped cream and mix in a compact and uniform way, making it a single compound
Cut the baba in half with a kitchen knife, leaving the underside uncut
tips
- Gently squeeze all the babas one at a time in your hands.
- Baba grows a lot after wetting, therefore, adjust yourself well with the tray and it must be with high edges otherwise the wets will come out.
Storage
- After cooked and without being wet, the babà can be kept at room temperature, wrapped in cling film for 10 days.
- The wet and stuffed babas can be kept in the fridge for 2 days.
Equipments
- Planetary mixer
- Whisk for whipping
- Leaf or hook whisk
- Oven
- Baking tray or drip tray
- 20 molds for baba
- Knife
- 3 pots
- Small saucepan
- Dispenser (bottle with spout)
- Sac a poche (pastry bag)
- Silicone spatula
- 2 tbsp
- 36 cm bowl
- Bowl 20 cm
- Round tray of 30 cm
- Tablecloth
- Cooker
I’m so sorry, I clicked the rating button by mistake, I was hoping it would take me to the reviews. It makes it look like I’ve left a low rating – totally unintentional, I’m sure this recipe is fab!