Kiwi yogurt cake
Kiwi yogurt cake recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 3 kiwi fruit
- 1 pound plain low-fat yogurt
- 1/2 cup fresh strawberries
- 1 grated orange peel
- 1 grated lemon peel
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatine powder
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup Grand Marnier
- 1 1/2 cups fresh whipped cream
- 1 sponge cake
- Garnish:
- 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatine powder dissolved in 1 cup water
- 1 1/2 cups fresh whipped cream
- 8 fresh halved strawberries
- 1 cup toasted, sliced almonds
Recipe method:
- Cover the bottom of a 10 inch round springform pan with wax paper.
- Decorate the bottom of the mold with kiwi slices, unpeeled, 1/4 inch thick, and strawberry halves.
- In a large bowl, mix yogurt, strawberries, grated orange and lemon peels, and lemon juice until very creamy.
- In a separate bowl, beat together the eggs and the granulated sugar until very foamy.
- In a third bowl, dissolve the gelatin in the water, then add the Grand Marnier.
- Combine the ingredients in the first and second bowls, and add the whipped cream.
- Fold the third bowl of ingredients gently into the mixture.
- Immediately fill the mold to half an inch from the top.
- Cover the mixture with a layer 1/2 inch thick of sponge cake.
- Refrigerate overnight.
- Unmold the cake. The kiwi should be on top.
- Use a light pastry brush to glaze top of cake with gelatine mixture.
- Decorate the top of the cake with a rosette of whipped cream on each slice of kiwi fruit and top with a half strawberry.
- Lay toasted, sliced almonds around the base of the cake.
- Cut cake into 16 slices.
- Serve very cold.
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