Pretty Christmas cake on colorful peppermint candy plate
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Baking & Desserts Gebäck Cake Cute Creations Chocolate & SüßigkeitenHübsche Christmas cake on colorful peppermint candy plate
.Whether as a festive dessert at the end of the Christmas menu or for afternoon coffee during Advent – a Christmas cake is the sweetest highlight at the most contemplative time of the year.
Our Christmas cake this year is a very special creation: served on a colorful platter of peppermint candies, filled with moist brownie cake and covered in soft fresh cream, this beautiful Christmas cake is a true feast for the senses!
Servings: 10-12
Preparation time: 1 hr 40 min
Baking time: 55 Min
Total time: 2 Hrs 35 Min
Time to cook/chill: approx. 2 Hrs 30 Min
Difficulty: moderate
For this you will need:
For the brownie cakes:
6 egg whites; 240 g sugar 180 g flour, type 405 70 g cocoa powder 110 ml vegetableöl 120 ml milk Baking pan, diameter: 18 cm
For the candy plate:
40 red peppermint candies 58 green peppermint candies Springform pan, diameter: 28 cm
For the fresh cream:
250 g fresh cheese 3 tbsp powdered sugar 2 tsp cream stiffener 200 g whipped cream piping bag star
For the red chocolate sauce:
50 g white couverture 30 g cream 1 g red food coloring
For the green chocolate sauce:
50 g white Kuvertüre 30 g cream 1 g green food coloring
Further:
3 red peppermint candies for the filling 3 green peppermint candies for the filling Cooking lüffel bottom of a 0.5-liter PET bottle 5 red peppermint candies to decorate 5 grüne peppermint candies to decorate
How it works:
1. For the candy plate, place the peppermint candies in a circle in the springform pan and then let them melt for 15 minutes at 150 °C top/bottom heat. Let the candy plate then for 2 hours to cool and harden.
2. Verrühre in this time for the Frischkäsecreme first powdered sugar and cream stiffener and then fold in whipped cream. Put the fresh cream if possible for 1-2 hours in the refrigerator, then it can be better spread on the cake later.
3. Meanwhile, prepare the brownie cake. For this, whip the egg whites, gradually add the sugar and whip everything into a firm meringue. Mix the flour with the cocoa powder and then work the flour-cocoa mixture, the vegetable oil and the milk alternately into the meringue. Fülle the dough then in a greased springform pan and bake it for 30-40 minutes at 170 °C top/bottom heat.
4. Are the three main components of the Christmas cake prepared, it goes to the assembly. Löse the candy slab from the mold. Cut the brownie cake in half horizontally and place one half in the center of the candy plate. Pour the cream into a piping bag and spread some of it on the brownie cake. Then crush the peppermint candies for the filling and sprinkle them on top of the cream.
5. Now put the other brownie cake half on top and cover the entire Christmas cake with fresh cream.
6. Heat the cream for each chocolate sauce in a saucepan, then add the chocolate and food coloring. The chocolate soufflés should cool for a few minutes before pouring over the Christmas cake.
7. Place the bottom of a PET bottle in the center of the Christmas cake and press with a wooden cube at even intervals.auml;nden five grooves in the fresh cream – always between the „Höckern“ of the bottle bottom.
8. Now pour the green chocolate sauce slowly over the bottom of the PET bottle, so that the grooves are filled with the sauce.
9. Then use the wooden cube to press five more grooves into the fresh cream between the existing (green) grooves. Turn the bottom of the PET bottle accordingly and pour the red chocolate sauce over it.
10. Remove the bottom of the PET bottle. Pour the fresh cream into a piping bag with a star-shaped tip, form several cups on the cake and decorate it with peppermint candies.
The red and green peppermint candies give the otherwise rather plain Christmas cake the right colorful festive ambience and a touch of peppermint. The great thing about this cake is that it is also perfect for other occasions, because brownie cake and fresh cream always go well; only the peppermint candies need to be changed. Imagine the cake with caramel candies – mmh!
Speaking of caramel – here you will find our popular recipe für a cherry cake with caramel.
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