Champagne Flake Cake

AUTHOR
Cassandra Brock
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 3
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 3 eggs (Gr. M), 175 g sugar
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 50 g flour, 50 g cornstarch
  • 1 TEASPOON Baking Powder
  • 10 sheets white gelatine
  • 300 ml Passion fruit nectar
  • 250 g Sour cream or crème fraîche
  • 1/4 Champagne or sparkling wine
  • 250 g Whipped cream
  • 25 g finished meringue shells
  • 1 TABLESPOON Icing sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Carambola and gold beads

Directions

  1. 1

    Line a springform pan (26 cm Ø) at the bottom with baking paper. Separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites and 3 tbsp. cold water until stiff, add 75 g sugar and vanillin sugar. Fold in the egg yolks one by one. Sift flour, starch and baking powder on top and fold in. Brush into the mould. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C / convection oven: 175 °C / gas: level 3) for 18-20 minutes. Cooling down

  2. 2

    Soak 4 and 6 gelatine leaves separately in cold water. Warm the nectar. Squeeze out 4 gelatine leaves, dissolve in it and cool down. Keep cold until the nectar begins to gel (takes 1-2 hours)

  3. 3

    Mix sour cream, 100 g sugar and champagne. Squeeze 6 sheets of gelatine and dissolve over a mild heat. Stir in 5 tablespoons of sour cream, then stir into the rest of the cream. Chill until it begins to gel. Whip cream until stiff. Fold into the cream. Then fold in the nectar as "streaks

  4. 4

    Cut the biscuit so that the top is thin and the bottom is thick. Crumble the thin base and meringue. Place the edge of the mould around the thick base. Spread cream on top. Spread the crumbs slightly dome-like on top. Chill for 4-5 hours. Dust with icing sugar and decorate

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
270 kcal
CARBS
29 g
FATS
13 g
PROTEINS
5 g