This week I make a chocolate cherry cake with a chocolate mirror glaze finish. You can find the recipe below (I use the Silikomart silicone mold Essenziale 1000, which is 18cm diameter x 4cm height)
***Chocolate sponge cake (16cm pan)
2 eggs
70g sugar
48g cake four
12g cocoa powder
15g milk
15g unsalted butter
Bake the cake at 170C for about 30 minutes, let it cool down completely before cutting into 2 sheets. Moist the cake sheets with cherry syrup.
***Cherry compote
200g cherries
40g sugar
50ml water
25ml Kirsch (cherry liquor)
1/2 tbsp lemon juice
Puree half the amount of the cherry compote and cut the rest of the cherries into half
***Cherry mousse
puree half the amount of cherry compote and sift through to get about 70-80g cherry puree
2 gelatine leaves (3g)
semi whip 160g heavy cream with 20g sugar
***Chocolate mousse
microwave 80g dark chocolate with 60g heavy cream to melt the chocolate
fold with 150g semi whipped cream