Raspberry Lemonade Cake

Ever since Christina Tosi replaced Joe Bastianich in the new Masterchef season, I’ve been slightly obbsessed with her recipes. She’s a pastry chef and I am somehow excited to see pastry chefs stepping out on tv shows like this one. I kept reading on various blogs that the recipes found in her Momofuku Milk Bar book are time consuming and hard to master and I thought this was the challenge I needed, although I don’t mind complex and time consuming cakes (do check my entremets for that matter). 

But I was intrigued by the elements she used in her cakes and the fact that she relies on the pure beauty of a naked cake to impress. And it works, it really does as after revealing my cake, I was in pure awe and I’m not that easily impressed when it comes to cakes, believe me!

Ingredients:

Vanilla Cake :

• 225 butter, softened
• 280g white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 125ml buttermilk
• 125ml vegetable oil (sunflower or canola oil)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 210g all-purpose flour
• 1½ teaspoons baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt

Raspberry Sauce :

• 200g raspberries
• 100g white sugar
• 1 tablespoon pectin powder

Liquid Cheesecake :

• 225g cream cheese, softened
• 80g sugar
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons whole milk
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Lemon Curd :

• 5 egg yolks
• 90ml lemon juice
• Zest from 2 lemons
• 100g butter, cubed
• 200g white sugar
• 1 pinch salt

Milk Crumbs :

• 45g milk powder
• 30g all-purpose flour
• 30g cornstarch
• 10g white sugar
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 70g butter, melted
• 15g milk powder
• 70g white chocolate, melted and cooled

Directions:

Vanilla Cake:

1. Pre-heat your oven to 350F - 180C and line a rectangle pan with baking paper. Ideally, the pan has around 35x25cm or a similar size. Place aside.
2. Sift the flour with salt and baking powder and place aside.
3. Mix the butter with sugar in a bowl for 3 minutes until creamy and pale.
4. Add the eggs, one by one, and mix well after each addition.
5. While mixing at medium speed, slowly pour in the buttermilk, followed by the vegetable oil and vanilla then turn the mixer on high speed and mix for 6 minutes until double in volume.
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Get Full Recipes : pastry-workshop.com

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