Vertical Layer Cake.
You can cook Vertical Layer Cake using 25 ingredients and 44 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Vertical Layer Cake
- It’s of Vanilla For the Sponge -.
- You need one of eyes I close my and used third rd of this recipe.
- You need 1 cup of All purpose flour Sifted ..
- You need 1.5 tsps of Baking powder ..
- Prepare 1/8 tsp of Salt th ..
- It’s 1/3 cup of unsalted butter softened ..
- You need 1/2 Cup of Sugar ..
- Prepare 1 of egg large , at room temperature ..
- You need 1 tsp of vanilla essence ..
- It’s 1/3 cup of Milk at room temp ..
- You need of Chocolate cake For the swiss roll -.
- It’s of You shall need : I used martha stweart ’ s recipe (doubled).
- You need 1/2 cup of cocoa powder.
- Prepare 2/3 cup of All purpose flour plus 4 tbsps.
- Prepare Pinch of salt.
- Prepare 6 of eggs egg yolks large 4 large whole plus.
- Prepare 1 cup of sugar.
- Prepare 8 tablespoons of unsalted butter , melted and cooled completely.
- You need of Filling :.
- Prepare 100 gms of Cream cheese ….
- Prepare 40 gms of butter softened ….
- You need 1.5 cups of icing sugar ….
- It’s 2 tbsps of corn flour ….
- You need drops of few yellow color.
- It’s 5 tbsps of Lime lemon jam and / preserve (Or you may use zest and juice of 2 limes and 2 s)….
Vertical Layer Cake instructions
- Pre heat an oven to 170C..
- In a bowl, cream sugar and butter. Beat until pale..
- Add the egg and beat again..
- Add the vanilla essence..
- Sift all the dry ingriedients in a bowl and keep aside..
- Put half of the dry ingredients and beat in the butter sugar mix..
- Add half of the milk..
- Put the rest of the flour and mix..
- Add the milk and mix well..
- In a lined tin, pour the batter and bake for 15-20 min until a skewer when inserted in the center comes out clean..
- Keep it out on the cooling rack for 10 min and then unmould..
- Chocolate cake:.
- Pre heat the oven to 200 C and line two cake sheet trays with baking paper..
- Put a bowl of water to simmer, in a heatproof bowl add the eggs and sugar..
- Place this bowl on the simmering water (make use it does not touch the water).
- Using a whisk, amalgamate the sugar and eggs..
- Keep mixing them until the sugar is dissolved and the egg-sugar mix is warm to touch..
- Take it off the heat and using a beater, beat it for 4-5 min or until the mix is fluffy and pale..
- Sift the dry ingredients and fold carefully in the egg sugar mix..
- Pour the butter slowly at one of the edge and mix it carefully. We dont want to knock all the lovely air out..
- Divide the batter in the trays equally and bake each tray for 7-8 min or until the cake is springy to touch..
- Using a tea cloth/kitchen towel, invert the cake on it and peel off the butter sheet carefully..
- While the cakes are warm, roll them carefully in the cloth and keep aside until further use..
- Filling:.
- In a bowl, cream the cheese and butter..
- Add half of the sugar and cornflour..
- Add the jam/preserve..
- Add the balance dry ingredients and color..
- Beat until nice and fluffy (Adjust the lemony flavor.).
- Cover with cling film and keep aside until used..
- Make ganache with 1:1 ratio of semi sweet chocolate and cream..
- To Assemble-.
- Open the cakes and cut them length wise in half..
- Spread the filling forming a thin layer on the cake strips..
- Roll the first strip, filling side in as tightly as you may. be sure to not break it..
- Using a little frosting, attach next strip and roll it over the existing roll..
- By the end of all the strips, you must have a big roulade with you..
- Wrap it in the cling film and leave it chill overnight or atleast for 5 hours..
- Layer the vanilla cake in two..
- Spread a little ganache in it and put the roulade on it..
- Put another thin layer of ganache on the roulade's top and put the other vanilla layer..
- Seal the cake crumbs with the remaining frosting and put in the fridge for 30 min. (The heat was terrible for cream cheese frosting :() You may try any other frostinf of your choice..
- Pour ganache on the cake once the cake has rested in the fridge..
- Let the ganache set, decorate as you please..