Maria
Shadrina
The owner and manager of CAFÉ NEGRO coffee shop
Omsk
8 3

I have dared many professions: worked as a history teacher, theater critic, marketer, barista, and now I manage my own coffee shop. Participation in the «GRANDPRO Lights the Stars» competition became the first contest experience for me, a new step in my professional self-development.

WHITE ZACHER MINI CAKE

Maria
Shadrina
The owner and manager of CAFÉ NEGRO coffee shop
Omsk
8 3
Ingredients
  • Sponge cake
  • Sugar (1) 150 g
  • Egg yolks (large) 5 pcs
  • Eggs 2 pcs
  • Egg whites 5 pcs
  • Sugar (2) 150 g
  • Almond flour 250 g
  • Wheat flour 120 g
  • White chocolate 100 g
  • GRANDPRO Cake margarine 60 g
  • Baking powder 10 g
  • Peach rhubarb layer
  • Pureed peach 250 g
  • Pureed rhubarb 100 g
  • Sugar 200 g
  • Agar agar 10 g
  • Chocolate ganache
  • Cream 35% fat 200 g
  • White chocolate 300 g
  • Inverted sugar 50 g
  • GRANDPRO Cream margarine 100 g
  • Soaking syrup
  • Water 150 g
  • Sugar 50 g
  • Almond liqueur 30 g
  • Lemon juice a few drops
  • White icing
  • Gelatin 6 g
  • Cream 200 g
  • Sugar 200 g
  • Inverted sugar 50 g
  • White chocolate 100 g
  • Decoration
  • White chocolate capsules with ganache filling
  • Rhubarb shavings
  • Violets
cooking

Sponge cake

  • Whisk sugar (1), eggs, and yolks.
  • Melt chocolate with GRANDPRO Cake margarine.
  • Mix wheat and almond flours.
  • Whisk egg whites with sugar (2).
  • Add the margarine mixed with chocolate to the yolk and sugar mixture.
  • Mix the dry ingredients with the whisked egg whites.
  • Combine both mixtures.
  • Spread on 2 baking sheets 30×40 cm; bake at 180˚C.

Peach rhubarb layer

  • Combine peach and rhubarb purees with 2/3 sugar and put on fire.
  • Mix agar agar with the remaining sugar.
  • Bring the fruit mixture to a boil; add agar agar with sugar.
  • Boil the mixture for 5 minutes stirring with a whisk.

Chocolate ganache

  • Warm up cream with inverted sugar.
  • Melt chocolate in the cream.
  • Add soft GRANDPRO Cream margarine.
  • Whisk the ganache.

Soaking syrup

  • Boil water, add sugar and make simple syrup.
  • Cool, add liqueur and lemon juice.

White icing

  • Soak gelatin.
  • Mix cream and two types of sugar. Warm up to 103˚C.
  • Add gelatin and chocolate.
  • Blend.

Assembling the mini cakes

  • Use a 30×20 cm frame for assembling.
  • The sequence: sponge cake + soaking syrup; chocolate ganache; sponge cake + soaking syrup; peach rhubarb layer; sponge cake + soaking syrup; chocolate ganache.
  • Freeze.
  • Cover with the icing.
  • Cut into slices.
  • Decorate.