Monday, April 6, 2015

Strawberry Shortcake Genoise



Fortunately, strawberries are in season now and were very large, ruby red inside, and marvelous in flavor - a perfect time for this recipe at Easter.


To begin:  Thawing frozen strawberries in the oven with pilot light on requires no specific waiting, just a few hours -- or overnight for me. 

Prepared puree and syrup

Mis on place below:  Eggs and sugar for eggfoam.
Butter for buerre noisette and **A Xmas gift of Tahitian beans, and Vanilla from Tahitian beans made by my daughter].  
Flour and Rumsford cornstarch for batter.
And whipped cream!


Egg Foam


Into the oven 375' - the batter looked like tapicoa -


The genoise was perfect. Not a flaw. I had been careful to have Baker's Joy in every possible space and it was beautiful with each fruit defined.

Ready to turn the cake that has a paper towel placed it the indentation on the top of it to prevent collapse of the genoise.


Turned cake and peeling off parchment revealing bottom crust.


 Gently scraping off soft bottom crust with long knife used for torting, and useful here for control.


The strawberry syrup that will first be brushed onto the bottom of genoise and then again on top.


   Well - I had a problem. I have known I had an aesthetic problem. Things bother me. I have a cake showing off fruit. I am advised to put puree in the flat portion of the cake and it will be red and I can see this will ooze over my fruit because it is so tiny.
So, I made some Amoretti apricot that I have and sat down and painted fruit. This way it was delineated well from the puree and when the strawberries were put on I also cut slivers between the different fruits.

I was happy.







                      A little slice of Heaven
                          Mmmm Mmmm Good!

21 comments:

  1. Joan, Your cake is beautiful! Love the pan. When I first saw the picture, I was trying to figure out what else you put in the recipe. It's the lovely painted fruit! Great pictures. :) Love your whipped cream too.

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    1. Thanks Jill! It is always such a treat to see your posts, and nice you like this one today

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  2. Brava Joan! beautiful how you kept the design of the fruit given by the pan and arranged the berries around it. Even the cross section looks ever so appealing!

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    1. Thank you, Rose. As always, I appreciate your insight very much.

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  3. Brilliant idea! Turned out gorgeous! I imagine the apricot was a nice flavor with the strawberry, too.

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    1. Thanks Vicki - it's always nice to hear from you - your things are so wonderful

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  4. I like the idea of the shiny fruits, not colored red--it looks very lovely.

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  5. I like the idea of the shiny fruits, not colored red--it looks very lovely.

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  6. look great with the shiny fruit, great post again.

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    1. I love your posts! And you really make me feel great!! ; )

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  7. Beautiful cake, Joan! I love that you not only arranged your berries around the cake's design, but that you highlighted them as well. Also, what a wonderful gift from your daughter!

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  8. Thanks for the kudos Jen, I am just the apprentice following you and all of our experienced cake-mates - Thanks for stopping by. My daughter will be flattered that you noticed her vanilla!.

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  9. Looks beautiful! Great idea to put the strawberries around the cake design!

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    1. Thanks Faithy - just an idea you would have had in the moment - thanks for stopping by. You are always the first one here. I just haven't been here bec all the comments are on facebook so I forget to look here. I gouess I need to be writing my personal ones as well.
      Thank you!

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  10. Amazing Joan! That attention to detail is just beautiful. The detail from the pan is superb.

    A truly irresistible cake .

    Love the vanilla - what a thoughtful gift from your daughter.

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    1. Awww thank you. My daughter will be thrilled to learn you noticed. Glad you like the fruit. It was fun.
      Thanks. I love your blog and appreciate your stopping by ; )

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  11. Joan I LOVE your design aesthetic! Your cake is breathtakingly beautiful! VERY impressive work

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    1. Wow! You know with all the comments on the facebook I almost never come here. Tonight I was getting ready to put the latest endeavor to the blogger and just took at look. What you say is so inspiring for the novice like myself - This next week's post will bear that out lol. Thank you again. I love playing trivia with you
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  12. Your cake certainly did come out perfectly, and then you added to the perfection. So clever of you to glaze the cake 'fruit'.

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    1. Thank you so much Phylliscaroline. so kind of you to stop by. I love your blog as well.

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