Whipped Vanilla Milk and Pastry Cream | Raspberry Cake | Green Tea Gelée

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Preparation info
  • Yield:

    1

    Cake
    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in
The Elements of Dessert

By Francisco Migoya

Published 2012

  • About
Why These Flavors Work

This is a very simple flavor profile: vanilla, raspberries, and green tea. Vanilla, forever in harmony with all things sweet, has a way of tying in the raspberry and green tea, two seemingly odd flavors to put together but well harmonized in the presence of the vanilla and dairy flavors.

This cake is not assembled as a classic cake. In fact, there is really nothing classic about it. It is assembled into cubes, which are