Title: Recipe iced cake with apricots
Recipe Iced Cake with apricots
Ingredients:
Sponge dough
- 8 eggs
- 250g of flour
- Powdered sugar 250g
Cream:
- 500ml cream
- 150g icing sugar
- 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
Garnish
- 1 apricot box
- 1.5 gelatin sheets
- Some grapes
- caramel cream
Preparation
- Heat a water bath, put the eggs and sugar in a bowl and place in a bain marie and beat the mixture with an electric whisk until the volume of double cream, remove from heat and continue working until cooling, stir the flour gently with a wooden spoon until a perfectly homogeneous paste.
- Pour the dough on a pastry plate lined with parchment paper.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180 ° C for 15 minutes, check for doneness with the tip of a knife, remove from oven and unmold the cake onto a damp cloth and let cool.
- Prepare whipped cream: Pour the cold cream into a bowl and place it in the ice, whisk with electric mixer by changing speeds from slowest to fastest gradually until the cream turn cream gently fold whipped cream and icing sugar and vanilla sugar.
- Mix the apricots to obtain a grout if the grout is too thick add the syrup to obtain a liquid sauce, reserve a few for decoration apricots.
- Soak the gelatine in cold water for 15 minutes
- Put in a pan, the apricot coulis and let cool on a low heat, add the drained gelatine, stir well and let cool.
- Make editing, Cut the sponge cake in stainless square dimension.
- Lay the steel frame on a cake board and place the sponge cake dough square, soak with apricot syrup and pour the cream on top, cover with a layer of apricot coulis.
- Decorate the cake with apricots and grape halves, film and place in the freezer until time to serve.
- Serve iced cake decorated with caramel cream.
