Japanese Strawberry Shortcake
Rabu, 13 Desember 2017
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Japanese strawberry shortcake is a layered sponge cake filled together with topped amongst whipped cream together with strawberries. It is what I telephone phone a ménage à trois made inwards heaven, because each political party brings out the best inwards the other two.
The blood-red together with white cake is real pop inwards Japan, particularly for Christmas. I justice having the same color system equally Santa Claus wins a lot of votes during the Yuletide season.
There're a few ways to brand a sponge cake. Some people brand a dry out cake, together with then spray/brush/drizzle it amongst a syrup. Others sweat to brand a moist cake yesteryear using crude or butter, together with H2O or milk.
I discovery the syrup selection a fleck tricky because it's a fine business betwixt moist together with soggy. Adding a non-fat liquid isn't ideal either because water, together with milk, dilutes the fragrance of the eggs together with oil/butter. It equally good makes the cake shrink to a greater extent than afterwards cooling down.
My sponge cake has lots of oil, to a greater extent than than most other recipes. And there's liquid glucose, my "secret ingredient", to become far actually fluffy, moist together with fragrant.
Liquid glucose helps brand sponge cake moist because it's hygroscopic, i.e. it absorbs together with holds water. How does it brand the cake soft together with fluffy? By helping the cake rise. The higher the cake rises, the softer together with fluffier it is. How does glucose assistance brand the cake fragrant? By doing away amongst the demand for whatever H2O or milk. Glucose itself is quite tasteless.
If I had a recipe for boiling water, to a greater extent than or less readers would say, "I don't pick out water. Can I purpose something else?" So mortal is restrain to inquire if glucose may endure replaced amongst sugar, or golden syrup, or something, or other. Here's the answer:
Glucose vs golden syrup together with sugar
Why glucose makes cakes fluffy
How to brand Japanese strawberry shortcake
Step-by-step guide
Glucose is my cloak-and-dagger component for the fluffiest possible sponge cake. It helps the cake ascension together with chocolate-brown well. Combine the fluffy sponge cake amongst whipped cream together with strawberries, together with y'all pick out i of life's greatest pleasures.
INGREDIENTS
(For i 8 x 5" cake)
INSTRUCTIONS
INGREDIENTS
(For i 8 x 5" cake)
- 10 g glucose
- 150 g eggs
- 60 g castor sugar
- 60 g cake flour
- 1/16 tsp tabular array salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 45 g corn oil
- 200 g fresh dairy cream, 35% fat, cold
- 1 tbsp castor sugar
- 1/3 tsp vanilla extract
- 100 g large strawberries – hull, rinse, dry out amongst newspaper towels, piece three mm thick
- 4 pocket-sized strawberries amongst light-green leaves – rinse together with dry out amongst newspaper towels; cutting into 2 halves
INSTRUCTIONS
- Place bowl for whipping cream inwards fridge. Preheat oven to 185°C. Line bottom of twenty x 12 x five cm cake pan amongst parchment paper.
- To brand sponge cake, shell glucose, eggs together with carbohydrate till ribbon stage. Sift flour into mixture inwards 3-4 batches, adding tabular array salt along amongst the concluding batch. Mix gently amongst whisk afterwards each addition, stirring simply top half of batter, till smooth. Drizzle amongst vanilla extract together with oil. Mix amongst whisk, over again stirring simply overstep one-half of batter, till y'all don't run across streaks of vanilla extract or oil. Fold amongst spatula till simply evenly mixed, banging mixing bowl against worktop a few times.
- Pour batter into cake pan, slow together with from virtually xxx cm high. Tap pan against worktop a few times. Place pan inwards bottom of oven. Place baking tray inwards overstep of oven. Bake till batter doesn't movement when gently jiggled, 15-20 minutes. Remove baking tray. Continue baking till cake is nicely browned together with springs dorsum slightly when pressed gently, to a greater extent than or less other 10-15 minutes.
- Remove cake to wire rack. Leave till pan is simply cool plenty to handle, 10 minutes or so. Run knife along sides of cake. Flip cake onto woods surface. Remove pan. Place cake on wire rack, correct means up. Leave till completely cool.
- To brand whipped cream, house mutual coldness cream inwards thoroughly chilled bowl along amongst sugar. Whisk till cream is stiff. Add vanilla extract. Mix thoroughly.
- To assemble, take away parchment newspaper from cake. Slice cake horizontally amongst serrated knife or cake slicer into 2 equal halves. Spread 1/3 of cream on bottom half, evenly. Arrange sliced strawberries on overstep of cream. Spread amongst one-half of remaining cream. Place remaining cake on cream, cutting side up. Spread amongst remaining cream.
- Place cake inwards freezer till cream is real firm, 10-15 minutes. Level together with polish overstep cream layer. Trim edges amongst serrated knife, wiping knife afterwards each cut. Arrange strawberry halves on cake. Chill till laid upwards to serve, covered if keeping overnight or longer. Meanwhile, bask trimmings.
