Thursday, December 1, 2016

White Christmas Truffle Cake


White Christmas Truffle Cake
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Recipe type: dessert
Serves: 8
 
Ingredients
For the cake layer
  • 3 eggs
  • ⅓ cup/65 g sugar
  • ⅓ cup/45 g flour
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
For the truffle topping
  • 1¼ cups/ 300 g double cream/heavy cream
  • 12 oz/350 g white chocolate, chopped
  • 9 oz/250 g mascarpone or cream cheese
Instructions
For the cake layer
  1. Preheat the oven to 350F/180C. Butter and dust with flour an 8"/20 cm round springform pan.
  2. Beat room temperature eggs, vanilla and sugar in a medium bowl for about 3 minutes with an electric mixer until white, foamy and triple in volume.
  3. Fold sifted flour in 3 additions with a spatula, be careful not to deflate the cake batter.
  4. Bake in the preheated oven for 15-17 minutes until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
For the truffle topping
  1. Bring the cream in a saucepan to a boil. Add chopped white chocolate and stir with a whisk until the chocolate in melted and completely incorporated into the cream. Let the mixture cool completely.
  2. Add mascarpone or cream cheese and whip with a hand mixer until smooth.
  3. Pour the truffle mixture on top of the cake in the springform pan and chill in the refrigerator for at least for 2 hours or better overnight.
  4. Run a knife along the sides of the cake to release it from the pan, then carefully unmold it and move to a cake stand.

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