Heat the milk, salt, sugar and butter. Remove from the heat and add the flour, beating it well until it leaves the sides of the pan, then add the eggs a little at a time. Make choux buns 6 cm in diameter using a n°12 piping bag, then place a craquelin disc on top and bake at 180°.
2. Speculoos crème anglaise
INGREDIENTS
500 g cream
100 g egg yolk
100 g sugar
35 g speculoos spice
7 g powdered gelatine + 20 g water
500 g mascarpone
STEPS
Mix the spices and sugar with the egg yolks, bring the cream to boiling point and pour it over the egg yolks and sugar, pour into a saucepan and cook at 85°C. Add the gelatine and set aside in the refrigerator.
3. Clementine jam
INGREDIENTS
200 g peeled clementines
30 g glucose
45 g sugar
5 g pectin NH
juice of ½ lemon
STEPS
Heat together the clementines, lemon juice, sugar and glucose. Add the pectin at 40°C and bring to the boil, then set aside in a cool place.
4. Craquelin with clementine zest
INGREDIENTS
50 g butter
62 g brown sugar
62 g flour
½ vanilla pod
zest of ½ clementine
STEPS
Mix evenly and spread thinly onto two baking sheets. Set aside in the refrigerator. Cut out discs 5 cm in diameter.
5. Assembly
INGREDIENTS
STEPS
Whip the speculoos cream together with 500 g of mascarpone. Cut the choux pastries open, pipe in the speculoos cream, and add your jam in the centre. Close up the choux pastries.