Floating Island with Custard

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recipe by Jean-Baptiste BOUDIN

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    40mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    8
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    169
based on 28 ratings

For more deliciousness, scatter with pink pralines, flaked almonds, caramel or cocoa nibs. User generated recipes have not been tested by Kenwood.

recipe updated May 5, 2023

Ingredients

  • Egg yolk icon
    Egg yolk
    6
  • Caster sugar icon
    Caster sugar
    100 g
  • Whole milk icon
    Whole milk
    500 ml
  • Vanilla bean icon
    Vanilla bean
    1
  • Egg white icon
    Egg white
    6
  • Sugar icon
    Sugar
    50 g
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    1 pinch

Tools

  • kCook icon Cooking Chef XL
  • kCook icon Cooking chef xl bowl
  • kCook icon Medium bowl

Step preview

  1. Attach the Creaming Beater
  2. Add egg yolk and caster sugar to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  3. Lift the Cooking Chef head and fit the heat shield
  4. Mix with splashguard fitted - 2 min, Speed Max
  5. Then add whole milk and vanilla bean to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  6. Mix with splashguard fitted until smooth - 10 min, 85°C, Speed 1
  7. Transfer content of Cooking Chef XL Bowl to medium bowl
  8. Chill in fridge
  9. Clean Cooking Chef bowl
  10. Attach the Whisk
  11. Add egg white, sugar and salt to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  12. Whisk with splashguard fitted - 70°C, Speed Max
  13. Whisk with splashguard fitted - 6 min, Speed Max
  14. Assemble the floating islands
  15. Retrieve the custard from the fridge
  16. Pour a little custard into the serving bowls
  17. Scoop some of the whisked egg white with a ladle and place on the custard, in the middle of the serving bowls
  18. Garnish with pink pralines, flaked almonds, caramel or cocoa nibs
  19. Serve
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