Pain de Gênes

Name: Pain de Gênes
Ingredients: 75 g icing sugar; Sliced, toasted almonds; 300 ml whipping cream; 175 g finely ground almonds; 150 g white chocolate; Vanilla essence; 250 g raspberries; 45 g melted butter; 90 g flour; 4 egg yolks; 50 g sugar; 4 egg whites; 50 g redcurrants; 1 whole egg

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Le Cordon Bleu Dessert Techniques

By Le Cordon Bleu

Published 1999

About

The mainstay of this traditional dessert is its dense but moist almond sponge - the “bread”. It is always cooked in a round mould and here, topped with white chocolate mousse and decorated with fruit, nuts and white chocolate curls, it makes a grand finale to a special occasion.

Ingredients

For the almond sponge cake

75 g icing sugar
175 g finely ground almonds
Vanilla

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Butter a 22 cm cake tin and sprinkle liberally with the sliced toasted almonds, making sure that the tin is thoroughly lined with nuts so that the finished cake will have an even coating. Shake the excess nuts out of the tin and set aside.
Prepare the almond sponge. Sieve the icing sugar and the ground almonds into a bowl. This ensures that the sponge mixture i