Cake
Description
Homemade baked goods for tea. Despite the seemingly complex preparation, the cake is quite simple to make. It will take some time, but it’s worth it. Mousse cakes always turn out very tasty Serve warm or chilled. Perfect with tea.
Instructions
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Step 1
First, make the chocolate sponge cake. For this, beat the eggs with sugar into a fluffy foam. Then fold in the flour and cocoa.
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Step 2
Pour the batter into a baking pan (18 cm diameter) and place it in the oven at 180 °C for 30 minutes. Let the baked sponge cool and cut it into 2 layers.
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Step 3
For the strawberry filling, soak the gelatin in water for 20 minutes. Puree the strawberries in a blender and mix with sugar and starch. Heat the mixture until it is hot and thickened. Then remove from the heat and stir in the softened gelatin.
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Step 4
Pour the strawberry filling into a mold (diameter 18 cm) and freeze.
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Step 5
For preparing chocolate mousse, soak the gelatin in water for 20 minutes. Then heat 100 ml of cream until hot and dissolve the swollen gelatin in it.
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Step 6
Then add the chocolate, broken into pieces. Stir until it is completely melted. Cool the mixture.
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Step 7
Whisk 300 grams of cream to a semi-whipped state and combine it with the chocolate mixture and soft cream cheese.
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Step 8
It should turn out like this chocolate mousse.
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Step 9
Now we proceed to assembling the cake. Place one chocolate layer in the cake ring. Then add half of the chocolate mousse.
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Step 10
Place a frozen layer of strawberry compote on the mousse.
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Step 11
Next, spread the remaining part of the mousse.
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Step 12
Place the second layer of chocolate sponge cake. Put it in the freezer to freeze.
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Step 13
Remove the frozen cake from the mold.
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Step 14
For leveling the cake, prepare cream cheese. To do this, beat butter with powdered sugar. Then fold in the cream cheese.
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Step 15
With the ready cream, smooth the top and sides of the cake. Decorate the cake to your taste and let it sit in the refrigerator for at least a night. During this time it will thaw and will be very tender and tasty.
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Step 16
And you can decorate the cake to your liking.