This is a round, Christmas cake made using a round bowl as a mold! For the cream filling I used a recipe with honey and champagne that I realy love by Stelios Parliaros that I found on steliosparliaros.gr
Ingredients
For the filling-
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- 350 g. cream fresh 35% -36% fat ,
- 6 egg yolks ,
- 90 g. honey ,
- 25g. sugar ,
- 80 ml. Champagne or sparkling wine ,
- 10g. gelatin sheets
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- 150 g of chocolate (not more than 40 to 50% cocoa), broken into pieces ,
- 225 ml cream whipped cream
Instructions
For the filling-
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- Beat the cream fresh in the mixer using the whisk until it get as thick as yoghurt. ,
- Pour the egg yolks, honey and sugar into a bowl. ,
- Beat the mixture using a whisk and place the bowl over a pan with boiling water (bain marie). ,
- Keep beating the mixture on top of the double boiler until the mixture turns white. ,
- Remove it from the pan and bring it to the mixer where you keep beating while gradually adding champagne. ,
- Put the gelatine leaves in a bowl with cold water and let them soften. ,
- Meanwhile, boil about 1 cup of water in a pot. ,
- Squeeze the softened gelatine and pour in the boiling water. ,
- Stir until it melts completely. ,
- Pour the gelatine water in the mixture in the mixer and mix quickly with a rubber spatula. ,
- Add the thickened cream and mix with a spatula with gentle circular moves.
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- Place the chocolate in a bowl and melt over a pan of gently simmering water (do not allow the base of the bowl to touch the water). ,
- Stir continuously, taking care not to let the chocolate get too hot. Set aside to cool a little. ,
- Whip the cream until soft peaks form when the whisk is removed. ,
- Carefully fold in the melted chocolate until smooth and not streaky.
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- Take a round bowl. (I used this one from IKEA) ,
- Cover it in the inside with the first layer of cake. ,
- Do not worry if it brakes at some point because noone will notice later on. ,
- Pour inside the honey cream. ,
- Cover the top with the second cake. ,
- Put the bowl in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours. I left it overnight. ,
- Remove from the refrigerator and invert onto a platter. ,
- Cover the cake with chocolate using a spatula ,
- For decoration you can use whatever you want as cookies, candy or whatever you like.
