Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Chocolate cake with raspberries, blueberries and strawberries




recipe by my daughter (her own creation) and lots of work

1. BISCUIT BASE
crush oreo biscuits w/0 cream 60g
crush digestive biscuits 60g
Mix everything with 50g melted butter
Press firmly into base of pan and bake 160C for 12 mins.

2. Bake thin chocolate sponge cake (1.5cm)
4eggs, 80g sugar. Whisk till fluffly. Sift 80g cake flour with 20g cocoa flour. Fold in the flour gently and add 60g of butter. Pour into a rectangly pan and bakeat 200C for 10 mins. When cooled, cut into strips that are the same height as cake tin assembled into the baked oreo biscuit pan.

3. 2 Moist chocolate cakes
95g unsalted butter, 110g caster sugar, 100ml evaporated milk, 1 egg beaten, 1/2 cup plain flour, 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa, 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Combine sugar, milk, vanilla, butter in saucepan. Low heat, stir till butter melt and sugar dissolve and boil. Add egg.
Sift flour, cocoa and baking powder into another bowl.
Pour the wet mixture into the flour. Divide into 2 batches and steam medium heat for 35-40mins.

4. Strawberry mousse
300g fresh strawberries, 100g water, 160g sugar and 4 tsp powdered gelatin. Put all into a pan and simmer until gelatin dissovle. Left to cool and then blend until puree.
400g pure cream - whisk till thicken and mix with the blended puree.

5. Chocolate glaze
soak 1 sachet gelatin into a bowl 60ml hot water
Put 75ml water, 150ml gluocose syrup, 150g sugar into pan and bring to boil till 103C, turn off heat and mix in 100ml condensed milk and gelatin. pour over 150g dark chocolate.

6. Assemble the cake
Line fresh strawberries and pour the strawberry mousse. Then place a moist chocolate cake and again line some fresh strawberries with the mousse. Leave in the fridge to set. Then pour the chocolate glaze over the cake. Leave in the fridge to set. Again pour the chocolate glaze. (do 3 times) Then add lots of raspberries and blueberries on top of the cake.






made strawberry mousse


strawberry mousse


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