Head Chef at M&N Patisserie House, GRANDPRO Ambassador (Moscow)
INGREDIENTS Chocolate sponge cake Eggs 300 g Polydextrose (can be replaced with the same amount of sugar)50 g GRANDPRO Cake margarine100 g Allulose (can be replaced with the same amount of sugar)50 g Sugar-free dark chocolate 100 g All-purpose flour or gluten-free flour mixture 100 g
Smoked sour cherry compote Pitted sour cherries 150 g Orange juice 100 ml Cinnamon optional Pectin NH 5 g Allulose 100 g
Creamy mousse Milk 100 ml White chocolate 140 g Gelatin 200 bloom 5 g Vanilla seeds optional GRANDPRO Cream margarine50 g Cream 33%–35% fat 250 g
Sour cherry glaze Sour cherry juice 100 ml Isomalt 40 g Pectin NH 4 g Red food coloring optional
COOKING Chocolate sponge cake
Preheat the oven to 160 °C.
Separate egg yolks from the whites.
Whisk the whites, adding polydextrose little by little, until peaks form.
Whisk GRANDPRO Cake margarine with allulose into a fluffy mass, adding the yolks gradually.
Add the melted chocolate to the resulting mass and beat.
Add flour to the egg-yolk mixture. Mix it up.
Gradually add the egg-white mass to the batter.
Pour the resulting batter in a 1-cm thick layer into a pan covered with parchment paper.
Bake for 25 minutes at 160 °C. Test if the cake is done with a wooden skewer.
Cool the sponge cake on a wire rack and refrigerate for 2–6 hours. After stabilization, the sponge cake can be used.
Ganache
Combine GRANDPRO Cream margarine, dark chocolate, and cream in a cup.
Microwave until smooth.
Smoked sour cherry compote
Put all the ingredients except sour cherries in a saucepan.
Bring to a boil.
Add sour cherries.
Cook for 3 minutes.
Cool it down.
Smoke it with a smoker.
Pour into molds.
Freeze it.
Creamy mousse
Boil the milk.
Pour the milk over the white chocolate.
When the chocolate has melted, add bloomed gelatin, vanilla seeds, and GRANDPRO Cream margarine. Mix until smooth.
Whisk the cream to soft peaks.
Mix the milk and chocolate mixture with heavy cream in stages.
Pour into molds and freeze.
Sour cherry glaze
Mix sour cherry juice, isomalt, and pectin in a heavy-bottomed saucepan.
Add food coloring.
Bring the mixture to a boil.
Beat with an immersion blender.
Let the finished glaze cool to 45 °C.
Assembly and garnish
Put the frozen compote balls in larger sphere molds.
Pour the compote with the creamy mousse.
Freeze it.
Spread the ganache on the silicone mat with tree bark texture.
Get the sponge cake out of the pan.
Soak the sponge cake with the liquid remained from the compote.
Freeze it.
Place the ganache «bark» on a plate.
Shape the frozen balls into cherries, cover with sour cherry glaze and place on the «bark».
Refrigerate for 1–2 hours.
Before serving, garnish the dessert with chocolate sponge cake crumbs and plant decor.
INGREDIENTS Chocolate sponge cake Eggs 300 g Polydextrose (can be replaced with the same amount of sugar)50 g GRANDPRO Cake margarine100 g Allulose (can be replaced with the same amount of sugar)50 g Sugar-free dark chocolate 100 g All-purpose flour or gluten-free flour mixture 100 g