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Dessert - by Scarlett

 
From soufflé to parfait, you'll find my personal selection of yummy dessert recipes here and more!! So for home-made goodness or sweet treats around Sydney, be sure to check here - oh, and bon appétit!! Scarlett :)

Key Lime Gateau

December 15th 2008 11:12
Key Lime Gateau


INGREDIENTS
Makes a 20cm round gateau



For chocolate sponge cake base

4 eggs
120 gm sugar

¼ teaspoon vanilla essence
110 gm flour
70 gm butter, melted



For mousse

50 gm lime juice
150 gm water
60 gm sugar
3 egg yolks
1½ tablespoons gelatine powder
50 gm water
220 gm whip topping cream



For garnish

coloured sugar


1. Preheat the oven to 190ºC. Grease and line a 20cm round cake tin of greased greaseproof paper.

2. To make the chocolate sponge cake base, whisk the eggs in a heatproof mixing bowl. Gradually add the sugar together with vanilla essence and continue whisking, until the mixture is light and fluffy.




3. Beat in the sifted flour. Blend well.



4. Stir in the melted butter, mix well.



5. Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for about 25 minutes.



6. Remove from the tins and leave to cool completely on a wire rack.



7. For the mousse. Whip the cream until stiff and holding its shape.

8. Place the lime juice, 150 gm water and sugar together in a small pan and bring to a boil. Then beat in 3 egg yolks until evenly blended, continue cooking over a low heat for a while until the mixture thickens. Remove the pan from the heat.

9. Pour 50 gm of water into a small bowl, sprinkle over the gelatine and leave to soften for 5 minutes. Place the bowl over a small saucepan of hot water and stir occasionally until dissolve. Transfer to ice water bath, leave to cool until room temperature or 30ºC.

10. Fold in the whipped cream immediately mix until well blended.

11. Cut the sponge cut to fit the round cake tin, then put the cake at the bottom of the tin, then pour over the cream mixture. Smooth the top level, then cover and freeze until set.

12. Remove the cake from the tin and sprinkle the top with coloured sugar. Serve.



**From “Fruity Cakes”**

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Cheat’s Chocolate Rum Gateau

January 15th 2008 15:04
Cheat’s Chocolate Rum Gateau
Cheat’s Chocolate Rum Gateau



About Cheat’s Chocolate Rum Gateau

This recipe, originally invented for Comic Relief, is the busy person’s chocolate dessert, which is made in an instant but tastes like you slaved all day. It freezes like a dream – so why not whip up two of them while you’re at it?


About Gateau / Cake

Gateau means cake in French. Cakes began in ancient Egypt as round, flat, unleavened breads that were cooked on a hot stone. Their evolution from crude cakes to what we enjoy today was possible, over many centuries, through the introduction of new ingredients and technology. The Egyptian’s discovery and subsequent skill at using natural yeast helped leaven those once flat cakes. When butter and eggs made their way into the cake dough, their consistency became the precursor for today’s cakes.
Cake making continued to improve especially with the new ingredients such as chocolate and vanilla, and eventually sugar, that came to Europe with the discovery of the New World.



INGREDIENTS
Serves 8


a ready-made chocolate loaf cake
4 tablespoons good-quality hazelnut chocolate spread
55 ml / 2 fl oz dark rum
25 gm / 1 oz whole, blanched hazelnuts
425 ml / 15 fl oz double cream
1 tablespoon icing sugar, sifted



1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC / 350ºF.

2. Toast the hazelnuts on a baking sheet on the top shelf of the oven for 7 minutes, using a timer.

3. Chop the toasted hazelnuts roughly, then remove the paper from the cake, turn it on its side on a board.

4. Using a serrated knife, cut the chocolate loaf cake lengthways into 5 slices. Then arrange the slices on the board in the order you cut them (as you’ll be reassembling them into their original shape a little later).

5. Brush rum all over the cake slices, making sure it’s all used up.

6. Using an electric hand whisk, whip the cream with the icing sugar in a bowl until quite stiff.

7. Spread 4 layers of the cake (not the top one) with the chocolate spread.

8. Then spread the same 4 layers with about 4 heaped tablespoons of the cream.

9. Layer the cake back together, pressing the top down lightly.

10. Cover the whole lot with the remaining cream.

11. Sprinkle with the hazelnuts.

12. Cover and chill for about 3 hours before serving.


**From “The Delia Collection Chocolate” and “Joyofbaking.com”**

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Cassata Italienne

October 23rd 2007 09:53
Cassata Italienne
Cassata Italienne



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Gâteau St-Honoré

August 1st 2007 15:35
Gateau St-Honore
Gâteau St-Honoré



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Mango Strawberry Napoleon Gateau

April 28th 2006 16:49
Mango Strawberry Napoleon Gateau



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