London slices recipe

Ingredients:

Biscuit

• 150 g butter
• 4 egg yolks
• 100 g sugar
• 250 g flour
• 1 vanilla sugar
• Zest of 1 lemon
• Plum jam / apricot

Filling

• 4 egg whites
• 200 g sugar
• 200 g ground walnuts / almonds
• ½ Lemon
• 1 vanilla sugar

Procedure:

Biscuit

1. Beat the butter and egg yolks with sugar.
2. In the previously made mixture, add the flour, vanilla sugar and zest of one lemon.
3. Spread in a baking sheet that you previously covered with baking paper the resulting mixture of biscuit and bake for 15 minutes at 160 ° C in order to sponge slightly stung.
4. Take out of the oven the slightly baked sponge cake and brush with good plum jam / apricot.

Filling

1. Beat the egg whites, and stir in the sugar, vanilla sugar, juice and zest of half lemon and ground walnuts / almonds.
2. Filling with walnut spread over jam plum / apricot cake and return to oven for another 20 minutes at 160 ° C.

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Chocolate slices with strawberries

Crisp base:

• 150 g of wheat flour
• 125 g of biscuits with chocolate sauce
• 75 g sugar
• 125 g butter
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 sachet of vanilla sugar

Pastry:

• 200 g of wheat flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 15g cocoa
• 125 g sugar
• 4 eggs
• 100 ml oil
• 100 grams of yogurt

The filling:

• 100 g milk chocolate with yogurt
• 500 g strawberries
• 50 g sugar
• 7 sheets of white gelatin
• 400 g heavy cream

Other filling:

• 3 sheets of white gelatin
• 400 g of yogurt
• 75 g sugar
• 100 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa)

Decoration:

• 75 g of dark chocolate
• 1 teaspoon oil
• 100 g of smaller strawberries

Instructions:

1. Put the biscuits into a freezer bag and mash the biscuits into pieces, not crumbs.
2. Sift the flour into a bowl and add the baking powder, sugar, vanilla sugar and butter. Mix well with electric mixer.
3. In the end add in the mixture mashed biscuits and gently mix.
4. Sprinkle with flour the working surface and roll out the dough into a crisp baking tray (measuring 30 × 40 cm) lined with baking paper.
5. Preparing the dough
6. Mix the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder and sift all together in a bowl.
7. Add other ingredients and create a dough mix stirring constantly at maximum speed for about 3 minutes.

Baking chocolate slices:

1. Split evenly the resulting mixture over the dough crisp in baking tray.
2. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
3. Bake the cake 20 - minutes, and check with a toothpick trick if the cake is baked enough.
4. Leave aside the baked dough to cool to room temperature.

Preparation for the first filling:

1. Cut the strawberries with knife for peeling vegetables, wash and leave to drain.
2. Clean drained strawberries, cut into small pieces and add sugar.
3. Soak the gelatin sheets according to packet instructions.
4. Gently squeeze the soaked gelatine and dissolve in a small pot on low heat, but be careful not to boil it.
5. Stir in the previously prepared cream in the melted gelatin.
6. In the mixture with cream and gelatin, add chopped strawberries and grated chocolate and mix gently.
7. Leave in the fridge for about 2 hours the dough coated topping.

Preparation of the second filling:

1. Soak the gelatin according to the instructions on the packaging.
2. Break the chocolate into pieces in a small pot , melt the steamed stirring constantly on low heat .
3. Mix the yogurt with sugar.
4. Put the gelatin on low heat and mix with a little sugared yogurt.
5. Add the remaining yogurt to gelatin mixture.
6. Finally stir in the melted chocolate and mix well.
7. Align this second stuffing evenly by first stuffing.
8. Place the prepared slices of chocolate with strawberries in the refrigerator for an additional 2 hours of cooling.

Decoration of chocolate slices:

1. Cut into regular cubes the chocolate slices with strawberries.
2. Dark chocolate should be splited into cubes and melted it with oil steamed.
3. Garnish each cube cake with a few drops of melted chocolate. For more liquid chocolate on each cake, place a small washed, cleaned and dried strawberries.
4. Chocolate strawberry slices were prepared and ready to serve.

Zomick's wishes you a Bon appetit!