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Chocolate Dome Cake

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • flour
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup cake flour
  • 11 ounce semisweet chocolate
  • 1 cup heavy cream, chilled
  • 1 cup orange juice, sweetened to taste
  • 2 tablespoon Grand Marnier
  • 1 pint raspberries
  • 6 fresh green leaves, orange, lemon, bay
  • 1 tablespoon cocoa
  • 1 1/2 cup raspberries
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 tablespoon lemon juice

Instructions

Using the pastry brush, butter and flour a 8-in bowl to bake the cake in. Preheat oven to 350. Beat the eggs and sugar for 5 minutes or until thick, fluffy and tripled in volume. Rapidly sift and fold in the flour. Pour into prepared bowl. Bake for 35-45 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool cake completely on a wire rack (about 1 hour) before decorating. Melt 5 ounces of chocolate over hot, not boiling, water in a double boiler. Remove pan and let cool to room temperature. Whip the cream to soft peaks in a bowl set over ice cubes and water. Fold half the cream into the chocolate; fold in the rest of the cream. Add Grand Marnier to the orange juice. Slice the Genoise horizontally into three layers of equal thickness. Shave off and discard the crusty top of the cake. It will be too firm to absorb the liquid. Line the 8-inch bowl with plastic wrap. Fit the rounded top into the bowl; soak with 4 tablespoon of the orange mixture. Spoon 1/3 of the mousse onto the layer and strew on a handful of raspberries. Place the next layer of cake onto the first, brush with 1/3 cup of the orange juice mixture, the rest of the mousse, a handful of raspberries and cover with the remaining slice of cake. Brush on the last of the juice, and bring the hanging edges of the plastic wrap over the top. Cover with another sheet of plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours before decorating. Melt the remaining chocolate in a double boiler. Unmold the thoroughly chilled cake, domed side up, onto a rack. Lightly dampen your work surface so that a 12-inch sheet of plastic wrap will adhere. Spread a thin 10-11-inch disk of chocolate in the center of the sheet. Rapidly slide the plastic into the now empty bowl, letting the plastic with its chocolate disk cover the bottom and sides of the bowl. Gently drop the chilled cake into the bowl, fold the plastic wrap over it and chill. Make some chocolate leaves from leftover chocolate. For sauce, puree the raspberries with 1/2 cup sugar in a blender or food processor. Add lemon juice. Push the sauce through a fine sieve. Unmold the cake and garnish with sauce and leaves.

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