【Tomato Recipe】Christmas Root Cake—a cake that brings luck

Overview

Every year when Christmas is coming, all the Christmas culture related to Christmas comes out, and the wind chimes also keep up with the times, changing the Christmas background, adding Christmas music, and making you feel happy! It is said that the Christmas tree root cake is based on the dead wood used to keep the Holy Child warm. It has a realistic shape and is loved by both adults and children. Giving a tree root cake as a gift can bring people good luck. So Tomato made a Christmas tree root cake before Christmas, hoping to bring good luck to everyone.

Tags

• cake
• christmas
• blueberry
• chocolate
• cocoa powder
• egg
• low gluten flour
• salad oil
• strawberry
• whipping cream
• fine sugar
• milk
• powdered sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Beat the egg whites and egg yolks into a water-free and oil-free egg beating bowl. Add 35g of fine sugar to the egg yolks and beat until the color becomes lighter and slightly thicker.

   

2. 2 Add milk and salad oil in turn and mix.

   

3. 3 Sift in the mixture of cake flour and cocoa powder and mix thoroughly until the batter becomes sticky.

   

4. 4 Add the sugar to the egg whites in three batches and beat until wet peaks form.

   

5. 5 Scoop 1/3 of the egg whites into the egg yolk batter, and mix the cake evenly using the stirring and cutting techniques.

   

6. 6 Pour back into the meringue and fold into cake batter.

   

7. 7 Pour the cake batter into a baking pan lined with tin foil.

   

8. 8 Smooth the surface with a spatula.

   

9. 9 Place the cake in a preheated 180-degree oven on the middle layer and bake for about 15 minutes. Poke a toothpick into it and there will be no stickiness when it comes out.

   

10. 10 Place the baked cake on the drying net, tear off the tin foil around it, and let it dry for a while. Whip the light cream and caster sugar until wet peaks form.

    

11. 11 Turn the cake over, spread a layer of whipped cream on it, and use a serrated knife to gently cut one end of the cake, but don't cut it off.

    

12. 12 Starting from one end, roll it up gently.

    

13. 13 After rolling the cake roll, wrap it in tin foil, tie it into a candy shape, and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

    

14. 14 The chocolate melts into a liquid.

    

15. 15 Take out the cake roll, cut off the irregular parts at both ends, and then cut off 1/3

    

16. 16 Cut the 1/3 cut into smaller pieces, and then cut off part of it at an angle.

    

17. 17 Then use toothpicks to secure 2/3 of the cake.

    

18. 18 Place the assembled cake on the drying net and pour the melted chocolate all over the cake.

    

19. 19 After pouring the cake over, while the cake is still wet, use a spoon to draw lines on the surface of the cake.

    

20. 20 Finally, drizzle a little more chocolate, decorate with strawberries and blueberries, sift in powdered sugar, and the cake is ready.