You won't believe your eyes (and your taste buds) but this magnificent and succulent cake offered to you today by Mercotte, ultra-recognized blogger and jury alongside Cyril Lignac on the show "Le Meilleur Pâtissier" (M6 ), is very quick and easy to do! The ideal way to make the most of our Sunday and pamper yourself…
4 large eggs,
40g flour,
40g starch,
80g caster sugar,
The zest of an untreated lemon.
Butter the mold and powder it with caster sugar, set aside in the refrigerator.
Sift the flour and cornstarch.
Whip the egg whites at medium speed, adding the sugar in 3 times as soon as they start to foam. When the whites are at a bird's beak, reduce the speed add the yolks and continue beating for 15 seconds, until they are well incorporated.
Pour in half of the powders, incorporate them delicately with the spatula, add the grated lemon zest with the microplane then the rest of the powders and mix again with the spatula.
When the mixture is smooth, pour it into the mold, filling it to 3/4. Smooth the top with an angled spatula.
Bake for 5 minutes at 230°. Then bring the temperature of the oven to 135° and continue cooking for 35 minutes Check the degree of cooking using a skewer.
Turn out onto a wire rack and let cool. Dust with icing sugar when serving.
On this basis and according to the size of your mold adapt the proportions 2 eggs, 20g of powder, 40 of sugar, 3 eggs 30g and 60g etc…
The cooking temperatures are indicative, each oven is different, it is up to you to adapt according to your oven. You can also bake the Savoy biscuit at 170° for 45/50 min.
You can also make individual cakes in silicone molds, you will then have to adapt the cooking times.
Recipe taken from the book Solution Desserts pas à pas de Mercotte published by Editions Altal
Chocolate cookie:
100g caster sugar,
4 egg yolks and 4 egg whites,
52g flour,
5g potato starch,
18g of Valrhona bitter cocoa powder,
16 g cocoa nibs.
Same process.
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