It doesn’t matter the chocolate cake of which it is concerned. Whether it is a world famous recipe (from the Sache cakerto the cake Death by chocolate); if it belongs to the popular domestic recipes, like the mythical grandma’s chocolate cake or if it is a cake made in a professional bakery, such as this of Vanille Bakery Lab; It doesn’t matter if you have just one type of chocolate, or if it is made with all three (white, black and milk)… The possibilities that this type of dessert offers us are almost infinite and we… like them all!
That’s why we love to continue periodically proposing recipes to prepare variants of this baking classic. And if there is something that characterizes the cake that we are going to make today (besides, of course, being very delicious) it is its beautiful appearance. We will provide it with an air very autumnal, decorating it with some mushrooms, what will we do with meringue, and we will complete the landscape with what will pretend to be a little moss (which we will prepare by making a small sponge cake in the microwave using a little bit of green dye).
© GtresonlineIt is not a cake to make in 5 minutes because it has several steps. But if you follow them, you will see that it is not difficult to prepare and you will surely be able to surprise your loved ones with a dessert that is as tasty as it is gorgeous. Let’s go get him!
CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH MERINGUE MUSHROOMS AND CAKE ‘MOSS’
INGREDIENTS
For the cake
4 eggs
180g sugar
225g butter
125 ml milk
1 Greek yogurt
270g flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 tablespoons pure cocoa powder
For coverage
300 g of chocolate to melt
300 ml pastry cream
For the mushroom meringues
2 egg whites
salt
120g sugar
For the ‘moss’ (green cake)
1 large egg
a few drops of lemon
1 drop of green food coloring
25 g wheat flour
25 g white sugar
1 tablespoon milk
¼ teaspoon yeast
¼ teaspoon baking soda
To decorate
Elongated and rectangular chocolate chips
Hazelnuts
ELABORATION
The coverage
-Place the chocolate in a bain-marie.
-Once melted, remove from heat and add the cream, mix and refrigerate for 3 hours.
-Beat with electric beaters until the cream is formed.
-Reserve a couple of tablespoons.
© Adobe StockThe cake
-Beat the eggs with the sugar in a salad bowl until they double in volume.
-Add the warm butter, milk and yogurt and continue beating until everything is integrated. -Add the sifted flour, baking powder and cocoa and mix until there are no lumps left.
-Spread the mixture into two greased 15 cm molds, bake for 40 minutes at 180º or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Let it rest.
-Once cool, level the cakes by removing the top.
-Put a layer of coverage on one of the cakes and place the other on top.
-Cover the entire perimeter with a light layer of coverage and put the rest on top.
© Adobe StockThe mushroom meringues
-Wheel the egg whites with the salt. Halfway through the process, add the sugar and continue whipping until they are very firm.
-Spread the meringue into a piping bag (not a star-shaped one, we want the surface of the ‘hat’ to be smooth).
-On a baking tray lined with non-stick paper, make ‘little piles’ of meringue in two different shapes: on the one hand, what will be the ‘stems’ and, on the other, what will be the ‘hats’. Bake 1 hour at 100º.
-Remove from the oven.
-Once baked, use the reserved chocolate coating to join the stems and hats.
© Adobe StockThe ‘moss’ (green cake)
-Separate the white from the yolk.
-Whether the egg white with the lemon.
-Beat the yolk with the sugar until white.
-Add the rest of the ingredients, beat until they are well integrated and add the egg white carefully so that the mixture does not soften.
-Make small cuts with scissors at the base of a plastic cup and fill with the mixture.
-Cook in the microwave at maximum power for 50 seconds.
-Take out, place upside down and let cool.
PRESENTATION
-Place the flakes chocolate around the cake.
-Arrange the meringue mushrooms as in the image (some next to the base, others on top).
-Cut the green cake into small pieces and also arrange them randomly, as in the image.
-Sprinkle a little cinnamon on top of the meringue mushrooms.
-Add some hazelnuts, also as decoration.