Christmas cake
with butter cream
Mix the eggs with the icing sugar and beat into
a ruban. Pour in the sugar syrup in trickles.
Keep stirring until lukewarm. Mix in the butter in
small pieces. Keep stirring until it becomes
creamy. Flavour with mocha concentrate.
Finishing off. Take the biscuit roll out of the
fridge. Sprinkle the top with a glass of Grand
Marnier. Finish the outside of the roll with the
buttercream and draw the typical horizontal
lines of the stalk with a serrated spatula or a
fork. Decorate with cocoa powder, Christmas
decorations and thoroughly cleaned real pine
cones.
The biscuit. Beat the eggs with the sugar to a
ruban. Mix with the flour to a homogeneous
mass. Spread it out evenly on baking paper on
an oven plate. Bake for 10 minutes at 200°C.
Remove the biscuit base from the tray and
leave to cool on the baking paper.
Chocolate paste. Bring the cream to the boil.
Chop the chocolate finely. Mix the cream with
the chocolate off the heat and beat into a
smooth paste with a whisk. Leave to cool and
then mix with soft butter and a glass of Stroh
rum.
Spread the paste on the biscuit tray. Carefully
loosen the baking paper from the biscuit and
roll it up. Cover the roll with foil and leave to set
in the fridge.
Make the mocha buttercream. Mix the
granulated sugar with 1 dl water. Bring to the
boil and allow to reduce to sugar syrup.
Biscuit:
10 eggs
200 g granulated
sugar
200 pastry flour
Chocolate filling:
200 g milk chocolate
1.25 dl cream
Stroh rum
35 g soft butter
Mocca buttercream:
1 egg
1 yolk
50g icing sugar
125 granulated sugar
250g butter
mocha flavouring
Other:
cocoa powder
Grand Marnier
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listed
when
absolutely
necessary.
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