Pineapple and almond cake
Almond-wrapped cake, two-tone crust, light cream with whipped cream and mascarpone, refreshing pineapple filling.
Preparation steps
- Stuffing: clean and slice the pineapple, puree from the pieces in a blender. Boil the juice with the sugar, add the fruit puree and cook the 2 puddings. Cool down.
- Cream: mix the egg yolks with the sugar, pudding powder and a little milk, gradually pour in the hot milk and cook on the fire, stirring vigorously, when it starts to thicken, remove the pot from the heat and stir to make the cream smooth and without lumps. Allow to cool. Make whipped cream, mix whipped cream fix, mix a few tablespoons into Mascarpone cheese, add both mixtures to the cooled cream. Refrigerate.
- Preheat the oven to 175 ° C. Line a cake tin with a circle of baking paper or grease it with oil and flour. Maybe it was a better choice, it was a 28 cm mold, the yellow base should not even be cut and the cake would be lower.
- Yellow background: mix whole eggs with sugar and lemon sugar, add oil mixed with warm water and milk, then mix flour with baking powder and almonds, pour into a mold and bake for about 25 minutes. Invert the biscuit, remove the paper and leave to cool on the rack.
- White background: mix egg whites, a pinch of salt, sugar and lemon sugar and a teaspoon of vinegar, add oil and water and flour with starch flour and baking powder. Bake for 25 minutes at 170-175 ° C. Cool on a cake rack.
- Stacking the cake: on the surface of the pineapple filling with a knife draw three parts, cut the crust horizontally, (the first crust should be thicker - white crust); coat it with pineapple filling and with eight full spoons of cream, do the same with two more crusts, leave a little cream for the top crust and the rim of the cake. Put the cake to cool, and decorate it the next day.
- For decoration: fry almond leaves in a pan dry. Using a plastic spatula, glue most of the leaves to the rim and along the top edge of the cake, and chop a small part in a blender and place in the center circle. Now put the cake back in the fridge, and before painting and serving, you can sprinkle almond flakes on the edge with powdered sugar.
Serving
You can also freeze the cake, it will not lose its taste.