2018 new trend!

The first moment I saw I told to myself I had to make it! It’s the new sable cake with a mascarpone cream and lots and lots of decoration... you already know what am I talking about, right?

Well, since we’ve just moved in it’s the best excuse to start inviting people for dinners, housewarmings or parties. And so I got my first chance to make the new cake hehe (every occasion is good to celebrate it with a cake)
Our first guests were no others than my old colleagues from Punto, I’ve spent a lot of time with those crazy guys and I gotta admit that I do miss them a lot, every single one of them gave me plenty of moments I’ll never forget, plenty of Dutch slang, plenty of pintjes, and plenty, pleeeenty of coffees. After two years and a half I decided it was about time to start my career as chef, and so I put and end with my career as barista. It was really difficult to leave that family but I knew it was my moment to move on, and so I did it, leaving all those awesome people behind, but hey don’t forget we leave just 20min away! That’s a remark, if you didn’t notice it ;p

So when I invited them over I thought to myself, hey let’s try out that cool cake you’ve seen on the internet running around! The rest of the menu was well thought through and with Dario’s help we ended up with the winning menu. Everything went great and I was really waiting to see their faces when the get to see the dessert. I gotta admit, it was good for being the first one but it could’ve been better, don’t get me wrong, I really liked it but like always you get better the more you practice.

It’s a very simple cake where the fun part starts when you free up your imagination and the decoration just flows, prepare your table with tons of sprinkles, merengues, flowers, buttercream, glitters, chocolates,...whatever you have in mind that can top up this beauty.



Ingredients


For the cake

-300gr flour
-200gr cold butter
-50gr coaster sugar
-25gr fine sugar
-1 egg
-1ts vanilla

For the mascarpone cream
-500gr mascarpone
-500gr heavy cream
-200gr coaster sugar
-vanilla

Method

We’ll start by making the cake, in your bowl start by adding the flour, sugars and the butter cut in
dices and let your mixer run till it’s well combined and a bit sandy.
At that point we add the egg and start mixing again.
If you’re gonna use your hands it’ll be just a bit more work but at the end you’ll get a smooth dough as if it was made with the stand mixer.

Once your dough is ready, let it rest for about 30min to 1hour in the fridge.

Meanwhile let’s make the mascarpone cream, which is as easy as to combine all your ingredients and mix well. It looks in the beginning that it won’t get that thick but keep on mixing for about 5min and you’ll get the right consistency. Introduce it in your piping bag, I used a 16mm round nozzle to pipe out the cream on top of the biscuits.

Time to heat on the oven at 180 degrees centigrade and when it’s ready set your cakes, that you previously rolled out to 1mm thick and cut it with the shape you wanted in this case I made two “P’s” and two “T’s”. And put them in the oven for about 20min, always check them before cause you don’t want too-tanned cookies 😜

After that it’s just time to let your creativity flow with as many sprinkles and flowers as you have at home.

After all this I would like to thank you guys for coming, it was really nice for us and I hope you really enjoyed the night. You’re always welcome and I wish you all the best. Special mention to my boss and friend Kris, as I’ve always said, it was an honour working with you.