Herry Mocha Schnitten
Ingrediënten
Ingredients for 1 Cake Pan or Baking Frame
- Basic sponge cake for schnitten double recipe
- 3.5 oz 100 g Dark couverture chocolate
- 2½ cups 600 ml Coffee, very strong
- ⅔ cup 160 ml Sherry
- Cocoa powder for dusting
For the Sherry Mousse
- 12 Egg yolks
- ¾ cup 170 g Sugar
- ¾ cup 200 ml Oloroso sherry (dark, spicy sherry)
- 28 oz 800 g Mascarpone
- 7 Sheets gelatin
- 4¼ 11 Whipped cream
Instructies
- Prepare the sponge cake batter for schnitten according to the recipe and bake two cake bases.
- For the sherry mousse, beat egg yolks with sugar and sherry in a bain-marie until creamy.
- Add water to the gelatin, remove excess water, and dissolve in the warm sherry mixture.
- Mix the mascarpone a spoonful at a time into the mixture and fold in the whipped cream.
- Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie and cover one cake base with it.
- Let set, then place in a baking frame or deep loaf pan chocolate side down.
- Mix coffee and sherry and saturate the cake with half of it.
- Spread half of the sherry mousse on top and cover with the second cake.
- Saturate with the rest of the sherry coffee mixture and spread the rest of the cream on top.
- Chill overnight.
- Dust with cocoa powder before serving.
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