Chocolate Dream: White Chocolate Pineapple Cake


Rating: 3.20 / 5.00 (10 Votes)


Total time: 45 min

Servings: 16.0 (servings)

Dough:









Filling:








Cover:






Instructions:

For the dough: separate the eggs, beat the sugar, vanilla sugar, egg yolks and a little salt together until thick and fluffy, beat the egg whites until very stiff, stir 1/3 of the egg whites into the yolk mixture, put the rest on top, sift the flour, cornflour (maize starch) and baking powder over the top and fold the whole thing in evenly, spread a cake springform pan (diameter 26 cm) with parchment paper, pour in the sponge mixture and spread it on smoothly.

Bake in a heated oven at 175 °C , convection oven 150 °C , gas mark 3 for about half an hour, cool the sponge cake in the pan for about ten minutes, then remove and cool completely on a cooling rack.

For the filling: drain the pineapple well in a sieve and crush all but three slices together with the juice of one lemon, soak the gelatine in cold water, squeeze out and heat with two tablespoons of water and allow to melt, stir the dissolved gelatine into the pineapple puree, cut the remaining pineapple slices into small cubes, whip the whipped cream until stiff, as soon as the puree begins to gel, fold in the whipped cream and pineapple cubes.

Cut the sponge cake base twice to make three bases, spread the bottom and middle bases with the pineapple cream, assemble and place the top base on top, spread the pineapple jam through a sieve, stir with rum and coat the cake with it.

For the coating: place the marzipan cover on top, melt the cooking chocolate over a hot water bath.

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