Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Sans Rival Recipe

pistachio sans rival



By: Heny Sison

MERINGUE
7 large Egg Whites
3/4 tsp Cream of Tartar
1 c Sugar
1 c Pistachio, coarsely chopped

Preheat oven to 275 degrees F.
Beat together egg whites, cream of tartar and sugar 
until stiff but not dry.
Fold in nuts.
Divide mixture on 4-9" x 1/2" round pans lined with parchment paper.
Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour or until golden.
Transfer to wire racks.
Cool in the pans for 5 minutes.
Invert then carefully remove the parchment paper.
Completely let cool on wire rack.


BUTTERCREAM
3/4 c Sugar
1/2 c Water
9 Egg Yolks
3/4 c Butter
3/4 c Margarine
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 1/4 c Pistachio for decoration

Boil together sugar and water until 220 degrees F.
Beat egg yolks at speed 6 until thick and fluffy.
Continue cooking the syrup until 240 degrees F.
Pour hot syrup in a stream.
Beat until cold.
In another bowl, beat the butter and margarine compound until light.
Add egg yolk mixture then the vanilla.
Beat until creamy.
Use this to fill the meringue layers.
Decorate top and sides with more buttercream.
Sprinkle with pistachio nuts all over.
Freeze.
You can use other nuts for the variety... cashew, macadamia, almond.

9 Comments:

Anonymous said...

hi helene, i was googling and came across with your blog, thanks you for posting this recipe , i hope i can achieve the same as yours :)

Helene @ Home... Cooking said...

thank you, Queenie. go start archiving your recipes as well. it feels good to share it with others who love to learn to cook as well as those simply wanting to try something new.

and... looking back, you can go through what you have prepared for your family. it gives me a smile seeing my coooking :)

Anonymous said...

hi helene,

thank you for the recipe! God bless :)

anna

Anonymous said...

Hello Helene, I appreciate very much for sharing the recipe. I will try making this for the holidays for my family.
Best regards,
Queencafe

Helene @ Home... Cooking said...

thank you, Anna.

Helene @ Home... Cooking said...

good luck, Queencafe. enjoy it!

Anonymous said...

Hi Helene! Hope you can share with me the toffee and mocha sansrival recipe. I took some classes with Chef Heny also, so if you want any recipe, I would gladly share them with you. Just let me know...THANKS.

Cheers,
Corrie

Anonymous said...

Thanks for posting I had try several times this sinful dans rival but never get it right. Maybe this time your recipe will work ask ko Lang why 9egg yolks Dami can it be 5 eggs Lang. Ty

Anonymous said...

Thank's for this delicious Sansrival recipe Helene. It was my first attempt of making Sansrival and thank's to God it's a successful one.. Goodluck to you and hope you could share more recipes here...

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