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A refined French dessert featuring layers of cinnamon madeleine sponge, creamy milk chocolate-coffee crémeux, smooth white coffee mousse, and a delicate mirror glaze.

Coffee & Cinnamon Ca with Milk Chocolate Cremieux and Yellow Mirror Glaze

A refined French dessert featuring layers of cinnamon madeleine sponge, creamy milk chocolate-coffee crémeux, smooth white coffee mousse, and a delicate mirror glaze.
This elegant coffee and cinnamon entremet combines a crunchy sablé base, cinnamon madeleine sponge, milk chocolate crémeux infused with real coffee, and a glossy yellow glaze. A stunning dessert for coffee lovers.
This Coffee & Cinnamon Cake was born from a joyful collaboration with Julien, a former contestant on “Le Meilleur Pâtissier.” It's a multi-textured and elegant dessert that balances spiced softness with velvety mousse and deep coffee aromas.
Prep Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine French
Servings 9 people

Ingredients
  

✳️ Sable Diamant Reconstructed Base

  • 100 g cold butter
  • 43 g powdered sugar
  • 13 g egg yolks
  • 2.5 g salt
  • 5 g ground cinnamon
  • 113 g flour
  • To finish the base:
  • 150 g sablé crumbs baked & blended
  • 45 g brown sugar
  • 50 g melted butter

✳️ Cinnamon Madeleine Sponge

  • 75 g whole eggs
  • 55 g light brown sugar vergeoise
  • 25 g chestnut honey
  • 75 g flour
  • 3 g baking powder
  • 1.5 g ground cinnamon
  • 0.75 g salt
  • 53 g melted butter
  • 60 g pecans chopped

✳️ Milk Chocolate Coffee Cremieux

  • 180 g heavy cream 30%
  • 23 g egg yolks
  • 90 g milk chocolate
  • 2 g gelatin 200 bloom, hydrated
  • 45 g coffee beans whole
  • Pinch of fleur de sel

✳️ White Chocolate Coffee Mousse

  • 116 g heavy cream for infusion
  • 50 g coffee beans for infusion
  • 1 tsp instant coffee
  • 116 g white chocolate
  • 2.5 g gelatin 200 bloom, hydrated
  • 250 g heavy cream softly whipped

✳️ Yellow Milk Chocolate Mirror Glaze

  • 100 g sugar
  • 100 g glucose syrup
  • 53 g water
  • 67 g sweetened condensed milk
  • 100 g milk chocolate
  • Yellow liposoluble coloring
  • 6 g gelatin 200 bloom, hydrated in 36 g water

Instructions
 

Sablé Diamant Base

  • Cream butter and powdered sugar. Add yolk, salt, cinnamon. Mix in flour without overworking.
  • Chill for 2 hours, then crumble and bake at 170°C for 15 min.
  • Blend into crumbs, mix 150 g with brown sugar and melted butter.
  • Spread between parchment paper to 3 mm, cut a 16 cm disc, and chill.

Cinnamon Madeleine Sponge

  • Whisk eggs, sugar, and honey until fluffy.
  • Fold in sifted flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
  • Add melted butter and chopped pecans.
  • Pour into a 16 cm ring and bake at 170°C (fan) for 15 min.
  • Let cool in the ring.

Milk Chocolate Coffee Cremieux

  • Infuse coffee beans in hot cream for 15 min, strain and reweigh to 180 g.
  • Make crème anglaise with yolks and infused cream. Cook to 83°C.
  • Add to milk chocolate, along with gelatin and a pinch of salt.
  • Blend until smooth and cool to room temp.
  • Insert assembly: Pour crémeux over sponge in 16 cm ring and freeze.

White Coffee Mousse

  • Infuse beans in 116 g cream. Add instant coffee. Strain and reweigh.
  • Reheat and pour over white chocolate in 3 additions.
  • Emulsify, add gelatin. Cool to 20°C.
  • Fold in softly whipped cream. Use immediately.

🧩 Entremet Assembly (Reverse)

  • Line an 18 cm ring with acetate.
  • Pour mousse, pushing it up the sides.
  • Insert frozen crémeux + sponge center.
  • Cover with mousse, top with sablé base.
  • Smooth surface and freeze 12 hours.

Mirror Glaze

  • Hydrate gelatin.
  • Boil sugar, glucose, and water to 103°C.
  • Pour over condensed milk and chocolate.
  • Add gelatin and yellow coloring.
  • Blend, chill 12 hours.
  • Reheat to 35°C before use.

✨ Final Touch

  • Unmold the entremet, glaze at 35°C.
  • Chill for 6 hours before serving.
  • Decorate with milk chocolate curls or decor.
Keyword cake, pastry, proffitionel cakes, recipes, Reconstructed sablé diamant (shortbread) Cinnamon madeleine sponge Milk chocolate and coffee crémeux White coffee mousse Yellow-tinted mirror glaze