Fraisier RECIPE!!!!

Hello! Today I will show you how to prepare a Fraisier, this cake is original from France consists of two layers of a genoise (spongy) cake soaked in syrup filled with a mousseline cream with strawberries and topped with marzipan or almond paste.

For the genoise cake we´re going to need:

8 eggs (separated into yolks and whites)
1 cup + 2 tablespoons of sugar
1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons of butter (melted)
1 1/2 cups of flour

Preparation:

1. Pre-heat oven to 350F (180°C)
2. Beat the egg whites then add 3/4 cup of sugar and keep beating
3. Beat the yolks with the rest of the sugar
4. By hand, mix both mixtures
5. Take 1/4 of the mix and separate it, then add the melted butter
6. Mix it al and add the flour
7. Bake for 10 minutes
8. When cool, we´ll cut it in half

For the mousseline cream we´re going to need:

for the custard:

6 yolks
100 gr (3 1/2 oz.) of sugar
500 ml of milk
40 gr (1 1/5 oz.) of cornstarch
1 or 2 teaspoons of vanilla

later we´ll add:

330 gr (11 1/2 oz.) of butter
a little bit of liqueur of your preference
600 gr (21 oz.) of strawberries

Preparation:

1. Mix the yolks with the sugar and the cornstarch
2. Heat the milk until it is just about to boil
3. Mix the yolk mixture with the milk and cook slowly
4. Beat until the mixture is thick and has a good consistency *
5. With a beater we mix it at high speed with half the butter until its homogeneous
6. Chill for at least 25 minutes
7. After chilling we beat the other half of the butter and the liqueur

*at this point, if we´re only making the custard we put cling film so that it touches the custard and chill it until we use it

For the syrup we´ll need:

150 ml of water
50 gr of sugar
liqueur of your choice

Preparation:

1. we heat the water and sugar until it dissolves
2. we add the liqueur and let it cool

For the almond paste (marzipan) we´ll need:

100 gr of almond ground
100 gr of powdered sugar
30 gr of glucose
15 gr of egg whites
red food coloring

Preparation:

1. We mix all the ingredients until we have a paste.
2. We add the food coloring.
3. Between two sheets of wax paper, we roll the paste until it´s thin and then cut it with the mould

To make the fraisier we´ll:

1. In a base we´ll put the first layer of genoise cake and soak it in the syrup

1. We´ll cut some strawberries in half and put them in the walls of the cake mould like in the pictures

1. With the mousseline cream we´ll fill the gaps between the strawberries

1. We fill the cake with layers of cream and the rest of strawberries

1. We put the other layer of the genoise cake and soak it

1. We put the almond paste layer on top

And finally, the finished product!