French Cuisine
Cake
base ingredients:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour.
- 1 tsp baking powder.
- 1/8 tsp salt.
- ¼ cup butter, at room temperature.
- ⅓ cup granulated white sugar.
- 1 egg.
- ½ tsp vanilla essence.
- ¼ cup milk.
- ½ tsp grated lemon zest.
Cheese filling ingredients:
- 100 g cream Cheese.
- 1 sachet Dream Whip powder.
- 250 ml thick cream.
- 1 packet mango jelly.
Mango gelee ingredients:
- 1 cup fresh or frozen mango pulp, at room temperature.
- 1 tsp gelatin powder.
Cake base directions:
- Preheat oven to 350°F/180°C and place oven rack to middle
position.
- Butter, or spray with a nonstick cooking spray, the
bottom and sides of a jelly roll pan.
- In a bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, and
salt.
- In bowl of electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat the
butter until soft.
- Add the sugar and beat for 2 to 3 minutes or until light
and fluffy.
- Add egg and beat well.
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl; and add the vanilla
extract and lemon zest and beat until combined.
- With the mixer on low speed, alternately add the flour
mixture and milk, in 3 additions, beginning and ending with flour.
- Spread the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the
top with an offset spatula.
- Bake in preheated oven for about 15 to 20 minutes, or
until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Cool the cake in its pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
- Then place a wire rack on top of the cake pan and invert,
lifting off the pan.
- Once the cake has completely cooled cut out rounds to fit
your cake rings.
Cheese filling directions:
- Mix mango jelly according to the package instructions and
keep aside at room temperature.
- In a blender beat together cream cheese, dream whip
powder, thick cream and mango jelly mixture until it is well combined.
- Pour this mixture evenly on top of the cake layer in the
cake rings.
- Refrigerate until set.
Mango gelee directions:
- Soak gelatin in mango pulp for 10 minutes.
- Microwave the soaked mango pulp- gelatin mixture for 30
seconds.
- Mix well until gelatin is dissolved.
- When the mixture becomes cold carefully spoon on top of
the cream cheese mixture and refrigerate.
- Decorate with chocolate and mint leaves.