Believe it or not, this is the exciting dessert you in summer you ever have where gorgeous berries easily popped out. It tastes divine and inspiring.
Ingredients:
Matcha sponge cake:
- 4 eggs
- 40ml vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 100g white sugar
- 80g all-purpose flour, sifted
- 20g cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon matcha powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 drop green food coloring (optional)
Citrus Mousseline cream:
- 300 ml whole milk
- 2 lime rinds
- 2 mandarin rinds
- 3 egg yolks
- 100 g white sugar
- 30 g cornstarch
- 1 pinch salt
- 20 g butter
- 4 g gelatin + 20 ml cold water
- 200 ml heavy cream, whipped
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Citrus syrup:
- 80 g white sugar
- 120 ml water
- 1 lime rind
- 1 mandarin rind
Swiss meringue:
- 2 egg whites
- 100 g white sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
You will also need about 1½ pounds fresh strawberries
Introduction:
Green Tea Powder Top:
- Flour salt with salt, tea powder and starch.
- Separate eggs. Mix yolks with oil and vanilla.
- Mix the whites until they become sparkling. Add the sugar gradually and mix until you get a firm and shiny mash. If you use dye, now is the time to add it.
- Incorporate the yolks then gradually add flour and gently mix with a spatula.
- Pour the dough into a tray of 18-20 cm diameter and bake the preheated oven at 180°C for about 25 minutes or until the toothpick test passes.
- Allow to cool in the tray then cut the counter in half, getting two equal discs.
Citrus Mousseline Cream:
- Heat the milk in a bowl. Add the citrus peel and take off the fire. Allow to infuse for 10 minutes, then remove the bark and put on the fire again.
- Hydrate gelatin in cold water.
- In a bowl, mix the yolks with sugar and salt, add the starch and mix thoroughly.
- Pour the milk over the yolks in a thin wire and then put it on the fire again.
- Cook until thick.
- Take the heat and add the butter, then the gelatin.
- Cover with foil and let it cool completely.
- Mix the vanilla cream until it is creamy.
- Incorporate sour cream.
Citrus syrup:
- Combine the ingredients in a bowl and cook for 2-3 minutes on low / medium heat.
- Remove the citrus peel and let it cool completely.
To assemble the cake:
- Assemble a countertop in a cake ring with acetate foil.
- Easily nest the table top with a brush moistened with syrup.
- Place strawberries on the edge of the table so that the cut is exposed to the edge of the cake.
- Put a few tablespoons of cream in the center to put strawberries in place, then continue to put strawberries until you fill the center.
- Cover with the rest of the cream then place on top of the second top plate.
- Easily nest and cool for a few hours.
Bezea elvetiana:
- Combine the ingredients in a bowl and put on the steam bath.
- Cook until it reaches 65C and then take the heat and mix for a few minutes until you get a firm and shiny mash.
- Cover the marty cake and lightly caramelize with a cake.
- Decorate with fruits and mint leaves.
This recipe is made by Olguta Oana from Pastry Workshop
This recipe is a part of our "Top 10 Cake Recipes with Matcha" that can be downloaded here.