Strawberry Dream

Name: Strawberry Dream
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 Basic Génoise Cake; 100 ml A) Water; 20 grams A) Sugar; 1 tbsp A) Rum; 200 ml B) Heavy cream; 15 grams B) Sugar; 1 strawberries Any decorations that you want to use

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I created this cake for my second child’s birthday this year. In order to fulfill my child's request, I was planning to use an abundant amount of strawberries and chocolate discs (sort of). One idea behind this cake is that it’s a family cake, so why not have fun and make it an extravagant one?

For details on how to make the sponge cake itself, please refer to. Recipe by Yukiline

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

For details on how to make the sponge cake itself, please refer to. Recipe by Yukiline

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Ingredients

6 servings

1Basic Génoise Cake
100 mlA) Water
20 gramsA) Sugar
1 tbspA) Rum
200 mlB) Heavy cream
15 gramsB) Sugar
1strawberries Any decorations that you want to use

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Steps

1

In the stainless steel bowl mentioned above, coat the sides and bottom with butter and dust with bread flour (not listed in ingredients).
2

Prepare and bake the sponge cake from. Once it's cooled down, remove the cake from the mold and slice it horizontally into thirds.
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If you're worried about removing the cake from the mold, feel free to line the bowl with a thin belt of parchment paper (etc.) before baking to ease the removal.
4

This is what I used to get the cake out of the mold. With this, I was able to get it out with minimal tearing to the sides and underside.
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Take all the ingredients in group A and combine them to make a syrup. Now generously cover the cake layers with said syrup using the tip of a brush. Skip the underside of the layer that's going to be on the bottom.
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Next, take the ingredients in group B and mix them. After mixing, spread the frosting on the tops of the layers. Now decorate the tops with sliced strawberries.
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Spread the heavy cream over the strawberries to cover them. Layer on 1 sheet of sponge cake.
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Keep stacking the layers on top of each other until your cake looks like this.
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Now, make sure to smooth out the uneven sides to prepare for decorating.
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After that, cover the whole cake with the heavy cream.
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From here on out, you can design the cake as you please. I arranged the sliced strawberries around the base.
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After stacking another layer of sliced strawberries around the cake to make two levels, I placed thin chocolate discs in a ring above them.
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This time I used chocolate that I made myself. My child requested that they wanted chocolate discs, so I made my own.
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On top, arrange the sliced strawberries in the form of a flower bouquet.
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Next, on the chocolate discs, draw with some melted milk chocolate. Faces and flowers are what I drew.
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Don't forget to write happy birthday on a few of them. You don't want to cause an argument!
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And it's finished I very generously used two small packs of strawberries.
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With the leftover cream, you can fill the crevices between the strawberries. If you don't, it just creates a more simple cake which I feel is just perfectly fine.
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When you cut it, this is what it should look like. I made this cake three years ago with four layers, but as I think about the balance between the strawberries and the sponge cake, it's best made with three layers only.