By Maxime Rossetto

Recipe Blueberry Cheesecake

To make this dish

Ingredient list

  • Lievito Madre
    260 g Lievito Madre
    312 g T45 flour
    125 g water
  • Croissant dough
    155 g T45 flour (A)
    178 g water (1)
    31 g dry yeast
    1034 g T45 flour (B)
    273 g water (2)
    119 g milk
    143 g sugar
    36 g honey
    155 g Lescure Unsalted 250g butter Roll 82% fat
    24 g salt
    119 g fermented dough
    238 g Lievito Madre
    751 g Unsalted 1kg butter Sheet 84% fat
  • Black charcoal dough
    25 g Active charcoal powder
    25 g water
    2500 g croissant dough
  • Cheesecake
    2500 g cream cheese
    300 g Lescure Unsalted 250g butter Roll 82% fat
    410 g icing sugar
    8 g salt
    190 g cornstarch
    125 g egg white
    10 g lemon zest
  • Blueberry confit
    500 g IQF blueberries
    400 g blueberry puree
    240 g sugar
    9 g pectin NH
    16 g lemon juice
  • Glaze
    35 g Absolute cristal
    35 g water
    35 g blueberry puree
  • Assembly and finishing touches
    SQ fresh blueberries
    SQ candied lemon peel, cubed
    300 g first detrempe

The recipe, step by step

  1. 01

    Lievito Madre

    Refresh the Madre dough with the flour and water at 35 °C and use it for the main dough.

  2. 02

    Croissant dough

    To make a quick sponge, mix the T45 flour (A), the water (1) at 25 °C and the dry yeast, at least 20 minutes before the final mix.

    Then, mix all ingredients, with the water at a base temperature of 44 °C, into a dough and leave to ferment overnight at a refrigerated temperature of 2-3℃.

    Fold the dough and butter sheet into 1 x 3 and 1 x 4, then chill in a freezer at -7℃ for about 30 minutes.

    Roll out and fold to the final thickness.

    Let it rest at 27℃ for 2-3 hours.

  3. 03

    Black charcoal dough

    When the croissant dough reaches 80% gluten development, remove a portion of dough.

    Mix activated charcoal powder and water and add to dough.

    Mix well using a mixer.

  4. 04

    Cheesecake

    Use a beater to gently beat the cream cheese.

    Mix together the pomade-like butter, lemon zest, and dry ingredients, then add the egg whites in portions and mix.

  5. 05

    Blueberry confit

    Heat the blueberry IQF and puree to 40℃.

    Add the pre-mixed sugar and pectin and bring to a boil. Add the lemon juice.

  6. 06

    Glaze

    Mix all the ingredients.

  7. 07

    Assembly and finishing touches

    Place approximately 300 g of the detrempe over the charcoal dough, then cut it into strips and arrange them in rows on the remaining dough.

    Roll out the croissant dough to a final thickness of 2 mm. Cut the dough to 30cm × 3.5cm, about 70 g, bottom cut 75mm × 1mm.

    Fill 90 g of cheesecake into the cut dough and shape. Ferment for 1.5 hours at 26℃ and 80% humidity. Bake at 170℃ for 12 minutes.

    After completely cooled, pipe 25 g of blueberry confit over the cheesecake.

    Mix fresh blueberries in the glaze, then place them generously on top of the Danish and top with lemon confit.


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