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Woodcutter cake
- For 6 servings
- Difficulty high
- Time 1 ½ hours
Ingredients 1 Geneva type round biscuit 2 eggs 100gr Powdered sugar 200gr Butter 200gr Sugar glace 1kg raspberries Raspberry jelly Chopped almonds
Preparation
- Using two eggs and 100 gr. powdered sugar in a casserole at a low flame, prepare a cream.
- Once the sugar is completely dissolved, let it cool off.
- In the meantime reduce the butter into a cream working hard on it with a fork. Add it to the sugar and eggs.
- Separate the raspberries in two, separate the best ones and mash the rest, get the juice from the mashed raspberries, cook in a low flame fire adding to it glazed sugar, let it thicken until its to the point of when you put a drop into a plate it hardens immediately.
- Cut the biscuit into four layers.
- Cover the first layer with the butter cream, place the second one on top and cover it with the raspberry jelly; place the third layer on top and cover it with the butter cream, place the fourth layer on top.
- Decorate around the cake with a layer of butter cream and cover it with the chopped almonds.
- Pour and cover the cake with the sugar syrup that should be placed in a transparent layer of 2-3 cm. thickness.
- Decorate the cake with the raspberries that you separated either directly on top of the cake or on the sides of the dish or in small cups separately.
- If you wish you can also decorate the cake with some leaves prepared with a green colored almond paste.
Practical advice To prepare the Geneva biscuit, use three eggs 100gr of sugar and 100gr of flour, placing the dough into a buttered mold in a low flamed oven for 30 minutes.
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