Easiest Way to Make Thomas Keller Strawberry & Chocolate Truffle Christmas Cake
by Lou Fernandez
Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, strawberry & chocolate truffle christmas cake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook strawberry & chocolate truffle christmas cake using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Strawberry & Chocolate Truffle Christmas Cake:
Take For the sponge cake:
Take 65 grams Cake flour
Prepare 25 grams Cornstarch
Prepare 70 grams Caster sugar
Prepare 3 Eggs
Take For the Christmas decorations:
Prepare 4 bars Milk chocolate
Get 400 ml Heavy cream
Get 1 Strawberries
Prepare 1 Cocoa powder
Prepare 1 Powdered sugar
Make ready 1 Decorations
Steps to make Strawberry & Chocolate Truffle Christmas Cake:
Combine the caster sugar and eggs in a bowl and whisk together in a double broiler. Remove the bowl from the double broiler and whisk with a hand mixer until fluffy for about 15 minutes.
Combine the cake flour and cornstarch and sift into the mixture. Fold in gently with a rubber spatula.
Line a cake tin with parchment paper and pour in the mixture from Step 2. Bake in an oven preheated to 170℃ for 35-40 minutes.
After baking, let it cool and then thinly slice off the browned, uneven top. Cut the sponge into 2 layers.
Break the chocolate into small pieces and melt in a double broiler.
Add the heavy cream to a bowl and whip with a hand mixer. Pour in the melted chocolate from Step 5.
Vigorously whisk the cream and chocolate from Step 6 to finish making the chocolate cream.
Thickly cover one of the cake layers with chocolate cream and strawberries cut into halves. Cover the strawberries with another layer of chocolate cream.
Place the other sponge cake layer on top. Cover the entire cake in a layer of cream, and using a tea strainer to sift on an even layer of cocoa powder.
Decorate with your favourite Christmas decorations to finish!
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