Hot Chocolate Dessert
A dessert featuring sponge cake with chocolate decoration.
Ingredients
European pure chocolate (cut into small pieces)
60g (2 oz)
salt
a pinch
double cream (lightly whipped)
90 ml
orange liqueur
2 tbsp
white chocolate chips (for decoration)
candied orange peel strips (for decoration)
Instructions
1
Sponge Cake Preparation
Sift flour and cocoa powder together onto a sheet of parchment paper, then sift the remaining flour onto another sheet of paper.
2
Egg Yolk Mixture Preparation
Scoop out 2 tbsp of sugar and set aside, then beat the remaining sugar together with egg yolks and vanilla extract until the egg mixture is thick and forms strands when the whisk is lifted.
3
Egg White Whipping
Whip the egg whites to soft, moist peaks, add the remaining sugar and whip for another 1 minute until the foam becomes stiff.
4
Batter Mixing
First mix 1 tbsp of the egg whites into the egg yolk mixture from step 2 to loosen it, then carefully fold in the remaining egg whites. Before the ingredients are fully combined, scoop out half of the mixture into another bowl, sift the cocoa flour mixture from step 1 over it and mix well. For the other bowl, sift in the remaining flour and mix.
5
Piping into Molds
Pour the mixed batter into two piping bags separately, each fitted with a 1 cm (0.5 inch) round piping tip. Pipe the two types of batter on the baking sheet in diagonal opposing directions...
