Opera in White Cake is a French dish. The original name is "Opéra en blanc". The delicacy turns out to be incredibly tasty, amazing and tender. It is impossible to tear myself away from eating this cake.
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You will need
- - 200 g of white chocolate
- - 2 tbsp. l lemon liquor
- - 1 tsp lemon zest
- - 270 g butter
- - salt to taste
- - 35 g flour
- - 230 g granulated sugar
- - 6 egg whites
- - 3 eggs
- - 125 g of powdered sugar
- - 125 g almonds
- - 400 g cream
Instruction manual
1
Make a Mona Lisa sponge cake. Turn the almonds into flour first. Place almond petals and powdered sugar in a blender, chop. Then sift through a sieve.
2
Beat 3 eggs in a mixer. Add the almond mixture and beat for another 5-7 minutes. Then add flour and mix well. In a bowl, beat 3 protein with salt, add 35 g of granulated sugar. Combine with the almond-egg mixture. Melt 20 g butter and add 2 tbsp. dough and mix well. Then combine with the biscuit mass.
3
Cover the baking sheet with baking paper, grease with butter and pour out the dough. Spread evenly over the surface, 1-1.5 cm thick.
4
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, place a biscuit and bake for 10-15 minutes until a golden color appears. Remove the biscuit from the oven, turn it over onto clean baking paper. Bake another biscuit.
5
Make a swiss butter cream. Beat 190 g of granulated sugar and 3 protein. Put in a steam bath and continue to beat until granulated sugar is completely dissolved. Put the squirrels in ice water and beat until the meringue cools down. Add 250 g butter, 1 tsp. lemon peel, 2 tbsp. l liquor and mix well.
6
Cut the sponge cake into 3 cakes. Put the first cake on the dish, soak it with butter cream, cover it with the second and cream again, cover with the third cake, soak and place in a cold place for 1-1.5 hours.
7
Make white chocolate mousse. Heat 60 ml of cream and add chocolate, stir until smooth. Whip the cream of 240 ml and combine with chocolate.
8
Remove the cake and soak the top cake with mousse. Clean in a cold place for 6-8 hours. Garnish the cake with roses, almond petals.