This makes a great dessert and you could make it in a glass bowl without the sponge
Recipe Category: Dessert
Makes enough for: 1cake
All Rights Reserved: Adapted from Paul Hollywood
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Ingredients
for the sponge base
2eggs
50gfructose
15gbutter, melted, plus extra for greasing
50gflour, sifted
for the mousse
135gpacket strawberry jelly
600gstrawberries, hulled and all except 3 cut in half lengthwise,divided
1 x 380gtin evaporated milk *
to decorate
50gdark chocolate, roughly chopped
3strawberries from your 600g punnet
Method
for the sponge base
Preheat the oven to 180° Celsius
Grease and line the base of a 23cm springform tin
Place the eggs and fructose into a glass bowl and set over a bain-marie
Whisk using an electric beater until doubled in volume and at ribbon stage
Remove from the heat and gently fold in the butter
Carefully pour the flour along the edge of the bowl and gently fold in
Once the flour has been incorporated pour into the tin and bake for 15 minutes
Remove from the oven and leave to cool completely
Once cooled, remove the sponge from the tin and carefull remove the baking paper
Clean your tin and line the sides with baking paper
Place the sponge back into the tin on the base **
for the mousse
Cut the jelly along the lines and place into a saucepan with 15mls water
Leave to melt on the stove over a low temperature
When completely melted remove turn the stove off
Place 200g strawberries into a blender
Purée until smooth and then pass through a sieve to remove the seeds
Place the evaporated milk into a stand mixer and use a baloon whisk to whisk for 5 minutes
When the milk has thickened and doubled in volume gently fold in the jelly
Gently fold in the strawberry purée
Arrange the cut strawberries around the edge of the tin, with the cut side facing outwards ***
Pour the mousse into the tin and level the top as best you can
Refrigerate for 2 hours to set
to decorate
Melt the chocolate and dip the base of your strawberries into the melted chocolate
Set aside on baking paper to set
Carefully remove the mousse from the tin and place onto a serving dish
Place the rest of the chocolate into a piping bag and pipe the chocolate onto the top of the cake
Decorate with the strawberries and serve
This will keep in the fridge for a week
Notes
* if you are in the UK and can only get 170g tins, use two ** I could not remove the base from the sponge once I had made the mousse *** if you have any left over scatter them on the sponge base or use to decorate