Classic /Mole Mound
Today's classic is the mole hill. This is a delicious cake made with cocoa sponge cake, bananas, and whipped cream mixed with chocolate. The cake is best when very well chilled.
Ingredients for a 24-26 cm round cake pan:
Cake:
3 eggs, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar (125 g)
2 cups flour
100 g melted butter
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 tablespoons cocoa
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit)
Separate the egg whites from the yolks.
Place the egg whites in a clean, dry bowl and beat until frothy. Continue beating, slowly add the sugar and beat until stiff peaks form. Add the egg yolks one at a time to the beaten egg whites and beat for about 0.5 minutes. Then, pour in the melted, cooled butter, mix, and add the dry ingredients (flour, cocoa, and baking powder; I mixed everything together myself). Mix until combined.
Pour everything onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, smooth out the surface, and bake for 30 minutes.
Then, cool the dough, cut a hole in the dough (as shown in the video) and crumble it.
You'll need 3-6 ripe bananas. If you want banana halves like I did, 3 will be enough, and if you want whole bananas, about 6 will be enough. Remember, the bananas must be ripe. Arrange the bananas in the hole in the dough.
Cream:
1 teaspoon powdered gelatin
2 teaspoons cold water
100 ml hot water
600 ml chilled heavy cream
3 tablespoons powdered sugar
3 cans heavy cream (each packet makes 250 ml)
3-4 squares dark chocolate
Add 2 teaspoons cold water to the gelatin and let it sit for about 5 minutes. Then pour in 100 ml hot water and mix thoroughly. Let it cool.
Add powdered sugar to the cream and beat until it stops splattering. Add the heavy cream and beat until the cream is thick. Add the dissolved gelatin and mix briefly but thoroughly with a mixer. For the cream, grate the chocolate using a coarse grater. Mix and transfer the mixture to the bananas, forming a mountain. Smooth the cream. Sprinkle the cake crumbs over the cream.
The cake should chill thoroughly, preferably overnight. Enjoy.
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