Sponge cake with marzipan

We will need these ingredients:

For the dough:
• 125 g butter
• 3 eggs
• 125 g of finely crystalline sugar
• 125 g flour
• 1 hour. L. baking powder
• a pinch of salt

For the filling and decoration:
• 250 g classic marzipan
• 2 tbsp. l. apricot jam (warm up)
• Article 2-3. l. icing sugar
• Several raspberries or blueberries
• Several strawberries (remove the stalk and cut in half)
• orange slice (remove the bitter white flesh)
• chocolate leaves
• Fresh mint
• a sprig of red currants
• 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice
• 1 tbsp. l. fine-grained sugar
• zest of half an orange (remove a thin strip)

Utensil:
• Silicone round shape with a diameter of 18 cm
• baking tray
• cooking burner

Cooking method:
1 Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Melt butter and always set aside to cool slightly. Separate the whites from the yolks and beat the yolks with the sugar in a water bath. Beat the best mixer until the mass will increase in volume by half, it becomes thick and almost white. Remove from the water bath and continue beating until then, until the cream has cooled. Sift flour with baking powder and salt together, gently push in the yolk cream. Continuing to mix thoroughly, on the edge of the pour a thin stream of oil. Place on a baking form and pour into a mold the dough.
Bake 30 minutes. Biscuit should well up and become golden. Leave the cake for 15 minutes in the form, and then turn on the grill to cool down completely.

2 Cut 20 pieces of marzipan, roll it between the palms of each into a ball and then flatten slightly. Lubricate the surface of baked biscuit warmed jam and spread out on top in a single layer all the balls of marzipan, covering the surface completely (they are a bit raspolzutsya). Sprinkle with powdered sugar and caramelizing by a culinary torch.

3 Decorate the cake on top of raspberries, blueberries and strawberries, put a slice of orange, chocolate leaves and mint leaves. Apply lemon juice currant twig, then dip into the sugar and be sure to let it dry in order to achieve the effect of frost. Complete the decoration of the cake with a sprig of black currant and orange peel strips. If desired, can be supplied with custard or cream.

About the dish:

For 6-8 people:
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Preparation time: 30 minutes + cooling
The temperature of the oven: 180 ° C

The unusual composition for cake will appeal to anyone who does not like greasy creams, icing and chocolate. Air sponge impregnated with orange syrup and covered with fruit.

Council:
Although according to the recipe used a little baking powder, the dough rises mainly due to the whipping of egg mass in a water bath. The remaining ingredients are added carefully to the mass of air left.