French-Style Strawberry Cake

Name: French-Style Strawberry Cake
Yield: Makes one 18-cm cake
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: Sugar syrup 3 Tbsp (made using 25 g sugar and 50 g water); Strawberries 450 g, hulled and sliced lengthwise; Fresh whole milk 350 g; Kirsch or cherry liqueur 1 tsp; Pastry flour or top flour 35 g, sifted; Castor (superfine) sugar 100 g; Unsalted butter 200 g; Castor (superfine) sugar 30 g; Gelatin sheets 5 g, soaked in iced water to soften; Vanilla bean ½, split lengthwise and scraped for seeds; Kirsch or cherry liqueur 1 Tbsp; Egg yolks 4; Special biscuit sponge 1 quantity; Raspberry puree 100 g

Preparation info

Makes
one
18 cm cake

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Okashi

By Keiko Ishida

Published 2010

About

Ingredients

Special biscuit sponge 1 quantity
Kirsch or cherry liqueur 1 tsp

Asia
Japan
Cake

Method

Prepare special biscuit sponge.
When sponge is done and cooled, peel away the layer of brown skin on the top. Place an 18 x 18-cm square cake ring on cake and cut out an 18-cm square piece. Leave cake in cake ring and cover bottom of cake ring with cling film and a stainless steel tray.