Strawberry cream cake with gelatin

Very tender, light and delicious strawberry cake! Many people love sweets, but refuse it, fearing for their figure. However, not all sweets are harmful and high-calorie. Sometimes you can afford a piece of cake, especially if it is mousse with berries, for example, strawberry mousse cake. There are several different recipes for cooking this delicacy. You can use a shortbread crumb as a base from the dough or bake a biscuit. Mousse is also made by some housewives from eggs, and others with gelatin. In any case, you can choose a more interesting recipe for yourself.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 11 % 4 g
Fats 23 % 8 g
Carbohydrates 66 % 23 g
203 kcal
GI: 17 / 0 / 83

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 5 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    ;How to make Strawberry cream cake with gelatin? Prepare the ingredients for the mousse cake. Start by preparing gelatin and making sponge cake dough. Gelatin should be prepared according to the instructions indicated on the package. As a rule, it should be soaked with cold boiled water in the proportion of one tablespoon of gelatin powder to a glass of water. For strawberry jelly and mousse, we will need only 20 g of gelatin powder.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Bake a sponge cake as a base from the dough.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Beat a chicken egg with sugar with a blender or mixer until the mixture has increased in volume and with foam on the surface.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Carefully add baking powder and sifted wheat flour. Use a spatula to mix the dough so that it has the consistency of thick sour cream and without lumps. If desired and to taste, you can make it chocolate with the addition of cocoa, chocolate, cream and strawberries are perfectly combined. Be prepared for the fact that flour may need more or less than indicated in the recipe. Focus not on the amount of flour, but on the desired consistency of the dough.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Grease the cake pan with butter (bottom and walls). Pour the sponge dough into the mold. The shape is approximately 16-18 centimeters in diameter. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Bake the biscuit for about 25 minutes, but you need to focus on the work of your oven, the size of the mold and the number of ingredients. The readiness of the biscuit should be checked with a wooden toothpick, it should be dry at the exit.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Remove the finished biscuit from the mold on the grill and let it cool.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Proceed to the preparation of the creamy layer. Put the swollen gelatin on the fire, heat it over medium heat, stirring constantly so that it completely dissolves, but do not bring the mixture to a boil. Turn off the heat, let the gelatin cool down.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Pour cream into a bowl or blender bowl, add sugar, lemon juice and whisk with a blender or mixer until a homogeneous mixture is obtained. Pour in half of the jelly mixture. Beat the mixture again with a blender.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Prepare strawberry jelly. You can use fresh or frozen strawberries after defrosting them. Wash the strawberries and mash them with a blender. Add sugar to the strawberry puree and pour in the remaining gelatin. Whisk again with a blender.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Put a biscuit in a detachable mold or a large, compared to a biscuit, deep cup, covered with cling film or a bag, it should be in the center of the mold, from the walls of the mold to the edges there should be the same distance from all sides.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Pour the cream mixture on it. Refrigerate for 2 hours to solidify.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Take out the cake pan from the refrigerator, fill it with strawberry jelly.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Let the jelly freeze in the refrigerator.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    You can decorate the top of the cake with melted white chocolate or fresh strawberries cut into halves. Let the cake stand in the refrigerator for a little longer and serve it to the table.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Have a nice tea party!

Important!  The size of the mold must match the number of ingredients. If you do not have a shape of a diameter suitable for the recipe or you want to bake a pie or a cake of a larger or smaller size, an article about how to make the right calculations and not make a mistake will help, how to choose the shape of the desired diameter .

Be prepared for the fact that flour may need more or less than indicated in the recipe. Focus not on the amount of flour, but on the desired consistency of the dough. To avoid mistakes, read about flour and its properties!

All the secrets of making a tall, beautiful, lush sponge cake read the article about the biscuit dough .

Why gelatin hardens badly, how to avoid unpleasant gelatin lumps in the dish, as well as all the secrets and subtleties of cooking read in the article about gelatin .

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Buttermilk - 36   kcal/100g
  • Cream of 20 % fat content - 300   kcal/100g
  • Cream of 10% fat content - 120   kcal/100g
  • Cream - 300   kcal/100g
  • Strawberries - 30   kcal/100g
  • Fresh frozen sweet strawberries - 44   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Gelatin - 355   kcal/100g
  • Lemon juice - 16   kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Baking powder dough - 79   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g

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