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Strawberry Mousse Cake
Best of Gourmet 1987 Edition:
All of the Beautifully Illustrated Menus from 1986
Plus over 500 Selected Recipes, Vol. 2
from the Editors of Gourmet, 1987, Condé Nast Books, Random House
 
For the cake
Génoise batter (recipe
follows)
1/3 cup rum syrup (recipe follows)
9 or 10 fresh strawberries, trimmed
and halved lengthwise
Strawberry Mousse Filling (recipe follows)
About 1/2 pint fresh strawberries
1/4 cup red currant jelly
1 fresh mint sprig
Make the cake: Line the bottom of a buttered 8-inch
springform pan with wax paper, butter the paper, and dust the pan with
flour, knocking out the excess. Pour the génoise batter into the pan,
smoothing the top, and bake
it
in the middle of a preheated 350-degree F
oven for 20 to 25 minutes,
or
until the top is golden and a tester comes out
clean. Let the cake cool
in the pan on a rack for 5 minutes, remove the
sides of the pan, and invert
the
cake onto the rack. Remove the wax paper
carefully and let the cake
cool completely. The génoise may be made up to 1
day in advance and
kept wrapped in plastic wrap at room temperature.
Halve the cake horizontally with a serrated knife, arrange one half cut side
up on a 7-inch cardboard round covered tightly with foil, and brush some
of
the rum syrup over the cake. Set the cake on the cardboard round on
the
bottom of the springform pan, wrap a 3-inch-wide doubled sheet of
foil
tightly around the layer to form a cylindrical collar, and secure the
foil
with tape. Replace the sides of the pan around the foil and arrange
the
strawberries around the edge of the cake layer, cut sides flush with
the
foil collar and pointed ends up.
Pour the strawberry mousse filling over the cake layer and strawberries,
smoothing the top, cover it with the remaining cake layer cur side down,
and
brush the cake with the remaining rum syrup to taste. Chill the cake,
covered, for at least 4 hours or overnight. Remove the sides of the pan
and
foil collar carefully. Arrange some of the strawberries, trimmed and
sliced
thin, in a decorative pattern on the cake.
In a small saucepan melt the jelly with 1 tablespoon water over low heat,
stirring, and brush the glaze over the strawberries, the cake layers, and
the mousse. The cake may be made up to this point 3 hours in advance and
kept covered loosely and chilled.
Just before serving transfer the cake from the cardboard to a cake plate,
arrange a strawberry, cut almost but not completely through into thin
slices, leaving the stem end intact, and fanned, open, in the center, and
garnish it with the mint sprig. Arrange the remaining strawberries,
trimmed
and sliced thin, around the edge of the cake plate.
Génoise
2 large eggs
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons clarified butter,
melted and cooled to lukewarm
In a metal bowl whisk together the eggs and the sugar, set
the bowl over
a pan of simmering water, and stir the mixture until it is
warm and the
sugar is dissolved. Remove the bowl from the pan and with an
electric
mixer beat the mixture at moderate speed for 10 to 15 minutes, or
until
it is triple in volume and cooled to room temperature.
While the eggs are being beaten, sift the flour with the salt onto a sheet
of wax paper and in a bowl combine the vanilla and the clarified butter.
Sift
and fold the flour mixture in batches into the egg mixture until the
mixture
is just combined, stir one fourth of the mixture into the butter
mixture,
and fold the butter mixture quickly into the batter.
Rum Syrup
4 tablespoons sugar
4 tablespoons dark rum
In a small saucepan combine the sugar, 3 tablespoons water,
and the
rum, bring the mixture to a boil, stirring until the sugar is
dissolved, and
let the syrup cool to room temperature. The syrup keeps,
covered and chilled, indefinitely. Makes about 1/3 cup.
Strawberry Mousse Filling
A 10-ounce package frozen strawberries in syrup,
thawed and
drained, reserving the syrup
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
2 tablespoon dark rum, or to taste
3/4 cup heavy cream
In a food processor
purée the strawberries coarse. In a small saucepan sprinkle the gelatin over
the reserved strawberry syrup combined with the rum, let it soften for 5
minutes, and heat the mixture over moderately low heat, stirring, until the
gelatin is dissolved. With the motor running add the gelatin mixture in a
stream to the strawberry purée and blend the mixture until it is combined.
Transfer the strawberry mixture to a metal bowl set
in a larger bowl of ice
and cold water and stir the mixture until it is cold
and thickened slightly,
but do not let it begin to set.
In a chilled bowl beat the cream until it holds soft peaks and fold it into
the strawberry mixture. Do not make the filling in advance.
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