Pistachio cake with raspberries and lychee mousse

AUTHOR
Harley Romero
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
2.5 2
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 8
  • 50 g Pistachio kernels
  • 2 Eggs (size M)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 130 g Sugar
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 70 g Flour
  • 1 TEASPOON Baking Powder
  • 1 can(s) (567 ml) Pitted lychee or rambutan
  • 6 sheets Gelatine
  • 150 Double cream cream cheese
  • 150 g Low-fat curd
  • 300 Whipped cream
  • 4 pink macarons or 8 pink meringue spots
  • 100 g Raspberries to decorate
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Roast the pistachios in a pan without fat for 3-4 minutes, take them out and let them cool down. Grind the pistachios very finely in the universal chopper. Separate the eggs. Beat egg white and 2 tbsp. water until stiff. Add 1 pinch of salt, 80 g sugar and vanillin sugar. Fold in the egg yolks one after the other. Mix flour, baking powder and 3/4 of the ground pistachios and fold into the egg cream. Line the bottom of a springform pan (18 cm Ø) with baking paper. Fill in sponge cake mixture and smooth it down. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 25-30 minutes (test with sticks!) Leave to cool on a cake rack, remove the cake base from the tin

  2. 2

    Drain the lychee and collect the juice. Cut lychee in half. Soak the gelatine. Mix cream cheese, 100 ml lychee juice, quark and 50 g sugar until smooth. Squeeze the gelatine, dissolve. Stir 1-2 tbsp cream cheese mixture into the gelatine. Stir the gelatine mixture into the cream cheese. Whip cream until stiff, fold in. Spread a little cream on the base. Add lychee halves and press a little into the cream. Spread the rest of the cream on top. Chill for about 4 hours.

  3. 3

    Cut the macarons in half, scrape off the cream. Remove the cake from the tin, press the macaron halves to the edge, arrange on a plate, sprinkle with the remaining pistachios and decorate with raspberries

  4. 4

    Waiting time approx. 5 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
390 kcal
CARBS
37 g
FATS
22 g
PROTEINS
10 g

Categories & Tags

DessertChristmas