This cake is so refreshing and delicious that it will not leave anyone indifferent. The combination of meringue with fruit and almonds is something indescribable. This is a little different from the crusts we are used to. Very tasty, everyone who tried it gave positive comments.
Ingredients
Biscuit
- 1/2 cup of butter
- 2/3 cup of sugar
- 0.4 oz vanilla sugar
- 5 egg yolks
- 3/4 cup of flour
- 1/4 cup of blanched, ground almonds
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- pinch of salt
Meringue
- 5 egg whites
- pinch of salt
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 cup of almonds in flakes
Strawberry Coulis
- 2 1/2 cup of sliced strawberries
- 1 teaspoon of cornstarch
- 3 tablespoons of water
- 0.4 oz vanilla sugar
- 1 tablespoon sugar
Cream
- 1 cup of Mascarpone cheese
- 16 oz of heavy whipping cream
- 3/8 cup of sugar
- 1/4 vanilla sugar
- 1 oz of unflavored gelatin
- cold water
- and 2/3 cup of fresh blueberries
Preparation instructions
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Beat the butter with the sugar and salt until everything is nicely creamy. Add the egg yolks one at a time, mixing constantly. Finally, add the flour with baking powder and ground almonds. Mix everything well until you get a nice smooth dough.
Prepare two 10 inch cake tins (or bake one cake at a time if you don’t have two cake tins of the same size), line the tin with baking paper. Spread the batter evenly over the two tins or bake one cake at a time (in this case, spread half of the mixture over the 10 inch cake tin).
Then beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until foamy, then add the sugar little by little and increase the speed. Mix for a good 5 – 10 minutes. Spread the beaten egg whites over the dough in the mold (depending on whether you have two 10 inch molds or you are baking one sponge cake at a time). Arrange the almond flakes on top.
Basically, you need to get two identical biscuits (dough on the bottom, meringue and almond flakes on top).
Turn on and preheat the oven to 350 F. Bake the dough for 35 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool both biscuits completely
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While the biscuits are baking, prepare the strawberry coulis. Wash 1 1/4 cup of strawberries, remove the stems and cut into cubes. Mix 3 tablespoons of water with the cornstarch. Place the strawberries in a saucepan and bring to the boil with the sugar and mash them lightly with a fork, then add cornstarch . Reduce the heat and simmer briefly until you get the consistency of pudding. Remove from the heat and transfer to a glass container to cool.
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Wash the remaining 1 1/4 cup of of strawberries, remove the stems and cut into thin slices.
- And wash and dry the blueberries too
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For the cream, mix the mascarpone with the sugar on medium speed.
In another bowl, beat the heavy whipping cream until stiff. Gently add the heavy cream to the mascarpone cream, spoon by spoon, and fold in with a spatula, but do not beat any longer add dissolved gelatin with water to additionally stabilize our cream(*see additional information below how to make this stabilizer from gelatin). Mix everything together until it forms a smoothy cream.
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Place one sponge cake on a cake stand and place a 10 inch cake ring around it. Spread strawberry coulis on the first sponge cake and evenly distribute the sliced strawberries. Then spread the Mascarpone cream evenly over the strawberries and smooth and put blueberries on the top . Then place the second sponge cake on top and chill the cake in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.
*Sprinkle a gelatin over some cold water. If you’ve never worked with unflavored gelatin, it might seem weird, but it’s normal! You need to let this mixture sit for about 5 minutes to “bloom.” It will be thick .
Once it’s done blooming, you’ll heat it in the microwave just until melted. It only takes about 5-10 seconds, no need to boil it. Just whisk it until smooth.
Then very slowly add the gelatin in our smooth cream .