Cherry and Chocolate Gâteau

Name: Cherry and Chocolate Gâteau
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: Base (Shell): Flexible Shortbread; Inclusion 1: Cherry Jam; Inclusion 2: Mudslide Cookie Purée; Coating: Red Velvet Spray; Garnish: Encapsulated Cherry Nectar Sphere, silver leaf; Garnish: Encapsulated Cherry Nectar Sphere, silver leaf

Preparation info

Yield:
4
Cakes

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

The Elements of Dessert

By Francisco Migoya

Published 2012

About

Why These Flavors Work

This is not a cake in the traditional sense. It is a shell of shortbread cookie base fully baked and then filled with cherry jam and a purée of chocolate mudslide cookie. It is coated in a red velvet spray and topped with an encapsulated cherry nectar sphere.

Ingredients

Components

Base (Shell): Flexible Shortbread
Inclusion 1: Cherry Jam
Inclusion 2: Mudslide Cookie Purée
Coating:

Americas
United States
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Assembly Instructions

Line 4 rectangular molds measuring 10 cm/4 in wide by 20 cm</