Full recipe
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- a pinch of salt
- 1/3 cup wheat flour
- 2 generous tablespoons cocoa
- a teaspoon of baking powder
- half a cup of sugar
- 0.75 l 3.2% milk
- 2 vanilla puddings
- 300 g mint hard candies
- 1/2 cup boiling water
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 4 tablespoons "Pine shoot syrup" from Krakowski Kredens
- 1.5 sticks of soft butter
- 500 ml 36% heavy cream
- 2 gooseberry jellies
- 3/4 cup boiling water
- additionally: 200 g biscuits
- dark chocolate
Step by step
Method
- Sponge cake: Separate the egg whites from the yolks. Place the egg whites in a clean, dry bowl and beat with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form.
- Gradually add the sugar, continuing to beat until the mixture is thick and glossy.
- Gently fold the sifted baking powder, flour, and cocoa into the beaten egg whites. Mix everything carefully, just until the ingredients are combined.
- Mint cream: Bring two cups of milk and sugar to a boil in a saucepan.
- In a separate bowl, mix the remaining milk with the pudding powder, then pour into the boiling milk. Cook until a thick pudding forms.
- In a separate small pot, dissolve the hard candies by adding a little boiling water and cooking over low heat until completely melted.
- Stir the hot pudding together with the hot, dissolved candies and mint syrup. Set the mixture aside to cool completely.
- Once the pudding mixture is cold, cream it together with the softened butter until fluffy.
- Spread the mint cream over the cooled sponge cake, then cover with a layer of biscuits. Place the cake in the refrigerator to set while you prepare the gooseberry mousse.
- Gooseberry mousse: Dissolve the jellies in a cup of boiling water. Set aside until slightly thickened and cooled.
- Whip the heavy cream in a mixer bowl. Towards the end of whipping, gradually pour in the cooled, slightly thickened jelly, mixing until a thick mousse forms.
- Spread the gooseberry mousse over the biscuits, smooth the surface, and sprinkle with grated chocolate.
- Chilling: Chill the cake in the refrigerator, preferably overnight, so that all the layers combine well and set.
