Kate's Playground Set 2009

Locksmiths Baileys cake, orange cream and candied orange roses

Orange, after the pink and black is my favorite color.
immediately makes me think summer. Yet it is the color of orange fruit (ne) par excellence: the orange. But mature in winter and the summer has nothing to do with anything. @ _ @

The cake I am presenting is a mix between a recipe on an old newspaper, resulting in the time of preparation and especially the need to cover an area less than perfect without resorting to the usual whipped cream.

Needed:

• loose base cake tin 26 cm

Recipe:

Ingredients for sponge cake: 6 eggs

• 300 gr. sugar
• a vial of orange flavor (or grated organic orange peel)
• 100 gr. 00
• flour 150 gr. cornstarch (cornflour)
• 1 tablespoon baking powder 2 tablespoons almonds
• peeled and minced

Procedure:

1. foam to Beat the eggs with sugar and orange flavor.
2. In a separate bowl, mix the flour with the starch and baking powder. Sift all the beaten egg and then built the ground almonds.
3. Spread the batter into the cake tin with a hinged board covered with parchment paper and leveled with the back of a spoon.
4. Bake in preheated oven at 180 degrees for about 35-40 minutes. Check the cooking
5. inserting a wooden stick in the sponge. It will be ready if they come out completely dry.
6. Remove from the oven and let the base cool.
7. level with a knife and then cut the surface base two times horizontally, so as to obtain 3 parts.
8. Place a disc of sponge cake on a serving dish and put a ring around the cake (or even the edge of the tin roof, without of course the bottom!)

Ingredients for the cream in the Baileys:

• 200 ml Baileys (or whiskey-based liqueur, cream and coffee made at home)
• 2 sheets of gelatine 200 ml of whipped cream

Procedure:

1. Soak in water cold, the gelatin for 10 minutes.
2. Whip the cream.
3. Heat up slightly Baileys, without letting it thicken.
4. Squeeze the gelatin and melt in hot liquid.
5. fold in the whipped cream and mix gently.
6. Spread the cream on the disk of sponge cake that will be the base of the cake. Levels and cover with the second disc.

Ingredients for the orange cream:

• Juice of 1 orange juice (or 120 ml of orange juice)
• 50 gr.
• sugar 3 sheets gelatin
• 300 gr.
• mascarpone 200 ml of whipped cream
• few tablespoons of orange marmalade to taste with candied peel

Procedure:

1. Soak in cold water, the gelatin for 10 minutes.
2. Whip the cream.
3. Heat the orange juice and sugar.
4. Squeeze the gelatin and melt in hot liquid.
5. Mix in the mascarpone and then the whipped cream
6. Spread the cream on the second disc of sponge cake, level and add a few tablespoons of orange marmalade.
7. Cover with the third and final disc of sponge cake.

Garnish: Sugar

• very little water
• thin slices of orange peel chopped

Procedure:

1. are obtained from one or two oranges, the thin slices.
2. In a skillet, melt the sugar with a few drops of water and let it go on low heat.
3. When sugar has dissolved, making a clear liquid, plunge the orange slices and cook until they caramelize slightly.
4. Decorate your cake.

I exaggerated, affecting more oranges than I needed to coat the surface of my pie.

After holding the edge of cream and placed the orange slices, side by side, I remembered a tutorial on how to bresaola do roses, sent by e-mail from Rosemary's blog "A Mouse on the Table". The concept was to illustratomi expert visual food I would say that while the process is much simpler, as the oranges and cook with sugar, they become quite sticky and is easy to then take the form without too much trouble!

Proceed by cutting the candied orange slices in half.

rolled up separately on their own and then shove one inside the other to "thicken" the flower.

Unfortunately I have not been able to make photos of the procedure because I was alone at times risked to decorate the cake with caramelized my fingers! :) If you need some other explanation, just ask by leaving a comment on this post. But I assure you that they are simple.

With this cake, I participate in the contest of "The Gang of Broccoli" and as such associations are perhaps worse off than me. I'll be conservative, but I only see well with broccoli us the lemon ... :))) Hihihihihi

Waiting to post another photo-recipe with lemon undisputed protagonist, much more traditional than this, just presented, my baileys cake with orange and citrus also participates in the contest organized by "The cookbook Cynthia .

And last but not least, with this cake also participated in the contest of Nicole Dolcetti overseas ! ^. ^