Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, reine de saba(french cake). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
A recipe like this reine de saba cake will remind you just how important the chocolate part of this life equation is. Reine de Saba Named after the Queen of Sheba, this chocolate and almond cake is said to be one of the first French cakes that Julia Child ever ate. This is from Julia Child's first book, The French Chef.
Reine de Saba(French cake) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Reine de Saba(French cake) is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have reine de saba(french cake) using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Reine de Saba(French cake):
- Make ready Meringue
- Prepare 3 egg whites
- Get pinch salt
- Make ready 1 tbsp granulated sugar
- Make ready Cake
- Take 115 g soften it unsalted butter
- Prepare 150 g granulated sugar
- Prepare 114 g 72% of melted chocolate
- Get 2 tablespoons brewed coffee (I used instant coffee)
- Prepare 26 g almond meals ( I blended unsalted almonds till it’s very fine
- Take 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- Make ready 62 g cake flour (I mixed half cup of all purpose and 1 tablespoon of corn starch to make the flour)
- Prepare Chocolate Glaze
- Take 57 g dark chocolate
- Get 57 g unsalted butter
- Make ready 9 inch cake pan
The Reine de Saba cake is dark and rich, sophisticated and it's no wonder Julia fell in love with the French cuisine if this was indeed her first taste. The cake itself is quite simple to make but there are simple keys to making it how the French do, or Julia herself. As "Reine de Saba" is French for Queen of Sheba, this seems entirely fitting. It also makes this cake eminently suitable for those who are gluten-intolerant.
Steps to make Reine de Saba(French cake):
- Whisk egg white and salt on high speed until the eggs lose their yellow appearance and begin to foam. Sprinkle sugar and whisk till stiff. Set aside.
- Beat the unsalted butter and granulated sugar together on medium speed until light and fluffy. add the egg yolks and mix until the batter is light yellow (vanilla-colored
- Add the melted chocolate and coffee to the batter, then mix just to incorporate. Then mix in the almond meal and almond extract. Finally, on low speed, mix in 1/3 of the egg whites to lighten up the batter.
- Fold using a spatula half of the cake flour into the batter. Add another third of egg whites to the, and very gently fold the whites into the batter. Add the remaining cake flour and gently fold to mix. Finally, add the remaining egg whites and gently fold to incorporate. There shouldn't be any unmixed egg whites.
- Butter your pan. Preheat oven at 175C fan. Bake cake for 16-min. I choose 15 min to have a fudgey texture. Then, take out the cake and let it sit for 10min. Take out the cake and let it cook completely.
- Melt the chocolate and butter. Smooth the glaze across the top of the cake first, giving time for the chocolate to somewhat set before smoothing down the sides. Garnish with almonds and serve!
A little of this cake goes very far. But to be defensive is to end on the wrong footing. Julia Child's famous Reine de Saba or Chocolate Almond Cake is an elegant dessert to serve with your holiday meals. In her later book, The Way to Cook, Julia says that this cake, prepared by her French co-author Simca, was the first French cake she ever ate. In a saucepan over low heat, melt the chocolate in the rum or coffee.
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