Walnut Heart

1. 

egg yolk 6 pcs • powdered sugar 3.5 oz (100 g) • water 1.25 tbsp (20 ml) • ground walnuts 1.75 oz (50 g)

Beat egg yolks with sugar and water. Mix walnuts in.

2. 

flour medium 3.5 oz (100 g) • baking powder for gingerbread 1.5 tsp • egg white 6 pcs

Mix flour with baking powder, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form.

3. 

Stir flour into egg yolks alternately with egg whites foam.

4. 

unsalted butter • flour medium

Pour the dough into baking form greased with butter and floured.

5. 

Bake for 25 minutes at 180 °C.

6. 

semi skimmed milk 1,5% 1.3 cup (300 ml) • sugar granulated 0.75 oz (20 g) • corn starch 1.5 oz (40 g)

Cook dense pudding from milk, sugar and corn starch. Allow it to cool.

7. 

unsalted butter 6.25 oz (180 g) • powdered sugar 2.75 oz (80 g)

Mix softened butter and sugar in a bowl.

8. 

rum 1.75 tbsp (25 ml)

Mix butter with pudding and stir rum in.

9. 

ground walnuts 2.75 oz (80 g)

Stir in walnuts...

10. 

chocolate 1 oz (25 g)

... and melted chocolate.

11. 

whipping cream (30-33% fat) ¾ cup (200 ml) • cream stabilizer 0.25 oz (7 g)

At the end stir into the cream stabilized whipped cream.

12. 

Cut the cake base across the middle into two halves. Remove the upper part and spread about 2/3 of the cream over the bottom layer. Place the upper layer on top of the cream.

13. 

Spread remaining cream all over the heart (sides, too).

14. 

ground walnuts 1.75 oz (50 g)

Sprinkle with walnuts.

15. 

chocolate • Raisins in chocolate

Melt chocolate and decorate the cake. We can add raisins into the pot with chocolate and use them for decoration, too.