Neapolitan Brownie Cake

Name: Neapolitan Brownie Cake
Ingredients: 1/2 pound butter; 2 cups sugar; 1/2 teaspoon salt; vanilla; 1 1/2 cups cocoa powder; 4 eggs; 1 cup flour; 1 3/4 cups strawberry puree; 2 packets strawberry flavoured gelatin (x100g); 1 - 1/3 cups heavy cream; 1 cup vanilla powdered sugar; strawberries, melted chocolate; 4 egg whites; Pinch salt; 2 drops lemon juice; 3/4 cup sugar; 1 tablespoon corn starch; vanilla

18 ingredients

7 steps

Ingredients

1/2 pound butter
2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
vanilla
1 1/2 cups cocoa powder
4 eggs
1 cup flour
1 3/4 cups strawberry puree
2 packets strawberry flavoured gelatin (x100g)
1 - 1/3 cups heavy cream
1 cup vanilla powdered sugar
strawberries, melted chocolate
4 egg whites
Pinch salt
2 drops lemon juice
3/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon corn starch
vanilla

Directions

1

Prepare brownie. Melt butter, sugar and cocoa, stirring occasionally until it is all well combined and hot. Set aside to cool down a little. Add vanilla, eggs and flour and stir until well combined.
2

Pour the dough into 9 inch round spring form lined with baking paper and bake at 325 F during 28 minutes. Let it cool completely. Remove brownie from it's form, cover the form with cling film and return brownie into it.
3

Prepare strawberry mousse. Blend strawberries to get 400ml puree. Whip cream with powdered sugar. Heat strawberry puree and add gelatine powder into it, stir well. Let it chill in the freezer during 7-10 minutes.
4

Add gelatine mixture into cream and whip quickly just to incorporate. Pour this mousse onto brownie and set into the fridge for about 2 hours.
5

Prepare meringue. Start beating egg whites with juice and salt until foamy. Add little by little all the sugar and starch and whip until stiff picks form. Preheat oven to 250F
6

Draw 9 inch circle on baking paper, transfer whipped egg whites onto the circle and bake for an hour. Switch the oven off and leave meringue in the oven with the door slightly ajar.
7

Atop already hardened mousse with meringue and decorate with strawberries and chocolate. Store this cake in the fridge.