Spring-Colored Strawberry Mousse Cake
- 2 Eggs
- 40 grams Sugar
- 50 grams Cake flour
- 10 grams Butter
- 1 tbsp Milk
- 2 tbsp Sugar
- 50 ml Water
- 300 grams Strawberries (I used Hakata Amaou)
- 30 grams Sugar
- 1 tbsp Lemon juice
- 1 tbsp Rum (if available)
- 1 tbsp Gelatin powder
- 3 tbsp White wine (water would be OK too)
- 150 ml Heavy cream
- Make the spongecake.
- Spread butter on a cake pan and line with parchment paper.
- Bring the eggs to room temperature.
- Melt butter in a microwave.
- Sift the cake flour twice.
- Preheat the oven to 180C (350F).
- Break the eggs into a bowl and whisk lightly with a whisk.
- Put the bowl over hot water at 60C (140F).
- Add sugar and continue whisking.
- (Refer to Note 1).
- Whisk well until the batter is thick enough to draw ribbons.
- Sift the cake flour in.
- Mix lightly using a rubber spatula.
- (Refer to Note 2).
- Add milk and melted butter to the batter and mix roughly.
- Pour the dough into the cake pan and tap the bottom of the cake pan 2-3 times to eliminate air pockets.
- Bake in the oven for about 25 minutes.
- When it is baked, take it out of the cake pan and place it on a grill upside down to cool.
- When it has is cooled, scrape off the browned part and slice the sponge cake into 2 slices (1 cm thick).
- Slice off the outer 1 cm rim (Refer to Note 3).
- Make the syrup.
- Put sugar and water into a heatproof container and heat in a microwave to melt.
- (For about 1 minute at 700W.)
- Brush the syrup onto both sides of the sponge cake from Step 5 using a brush.
- Put one of the sliced sponge cakes in the cake pan and chill in the freezer.
- Chill the other slice in the refrigerator.
- Make the mousse.
- Put the gelatin powder in 3 tablespoons of white wine to soften.
- Wash the strawberries and hull.
- Combine the strawberries, sugar, lemon juice, and rum in a blender and blend into a puree.
- Heat the gelatin in a microwave to melt (For about 20 seconds at 600W.)
- Pour into the blender from Step 8 and mix well.
- Put heavy cream in a bowl and whip the cream until soft peaks forms.
- Add the puree from Step 9 and mix well.
- Pour half of Step 10 into the cake pan from Step 7 and lay the other sponge cake on top.
- Pour the rest of the mousse in and even out the surface using a rubber spatula.
- Chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours to harden.
- Warm the sides of the cake pan with a hot moistened cloth, and unmold the cake Decorate it the way you like!
- It looks like this when you cut it.
eggs, sugar, flour, butter, milk, sugar, water, strawberries, sugar, lemon juice, gelatin powder, white wine, cream
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/168268-spring-colored-strawberry-mousse-cake (may not work)