Strawberry Elderflower Cake
Strawberry season is nearly over. Let’s plug some and prepare a cake!
I decided to to try mixing strawberry and elderflower. I made some elderflower syrup. Using a sponge cake base spread with a light elderflower yogurt cream topped with fresh strawberries.
Summer fresh cake!!!
Sponge cake with a light elderflower yogurt cream and fresh strawberries.
- 3 eggs
- 90 g sugar
- 50 g flour
- 25 g starch
- 1 pinch of salt
- vanilla (sugar or essence) depending on taste
- 500 g yogurt
- 200 ml elderflower syrup
- 200 ml whip cream
- 12 g gelatine powder or 8 sheets
- 500 g fresh strawberries
- 2 sachet of red cake glaze
- 25 g potato flour
- 50 ml strawberry syrup
- 400 ml water
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Place baking paper at the bottom of a 26 cm springform. You can also grease and flour.
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Preheat oven at 200 C.
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Mix eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla for around 10 minutes to a fluff.
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Mix flour and starch and fold in egg mixture.
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Pour in springform and bake for 14 minutes.
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Remove from oven and leave to cool for 10 minutes. Then remove cake from form and leave to cool completely.
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Disolve gelatine powder in a bit of water and leave to swell. Warm au bain marie or in microwave till fluid.
Or: Soak gelatine sheets in cold water for 10 minutes. Squeeze water out and warm slowly in some elderflower sirup or water.
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Mix elderflower sirup with yogurt.
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Mix a bit of the yogurt mixture to the gelatine. (to temperate)
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Then mix all the gelatine to the yogurt.
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Beat whip cream until ti is stiff and fold in yogurt mixture.
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Place sponge cake in a cake ring.
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Spread elderflower yogurt cream evenly on sponge cake (Cream should be semi solid not liquid. If necessary place in fridge.)
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Place in fridge for 2 hours.
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Cut strawberries In half or quarters and spread on cream.
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Dissolve cake glaze (keep to instructions on sachet) in 400 ml water and pour over strawberries.
Alternatively homemade cake glaze: Stir mix water with strawberry syrup. Use around 4 tablespoons and dissolve the potato flour. Bring the rest of strawberry water to boil. Add in dissolved potato flour slowly while stirring and let to boil and pour over strawberries.
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Place in fridge.
Enjoy baking!
Maggi & Family
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