"Here is your Ella cake": Loïc cooks his girlfriend's favorite cake for her birthday (video)

"Here is your Ella cake": Loïc cooks his girlfriend's favorite cake for her birthday (video)

Loïc is not a "chef" but a cooking madman! His grandparents and parents are the basis of his culinary education and it is thanks to books, television, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram that Loïc has continued his learning. His cooking is super fast, easy and always delicious. Concerned about his time and the world in which he lives, he tries to favor seasonal and local products through the recipes he presents to us.

This Thursday, Loïc reveals the recipe for a peanut birthday cake, which he makes for his girlfriend Ella.

Ingredients

12 eggs

440g unrefined sugar

600g of butter

600g of flour

1 packet of yeast

Peanut butter without sugar

125g of 70% cocoa chocolate

Cocoa powder

250ml of milk

1 handful of salted peanuts

Steps

Separate the 6 whites and the yolks. Keep 6 whites for the nougat and 6 yolks for the dough

Mix 6 yolks and 6 whole eggs. Weigh and add the same amount of sugar, here 444g

Blanch the mixture in the food processor

Add 222g of butter at room temperature and 222g of rapeseed oil

Place 444g of flour in a bowl, with a sachet of baking powder and 1 tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa

Grease and flour 3 molds, divide the dough into 3 and pour into the molds

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes

Toffee

Melt the sugar with a drop of water in a saucepan to obtain a caramel

Add the cream and mix to obtain a homogeneous texture

Remove the pan from the heat

Add 80g of butter, 1 pinch of fleur de sel

Pour the caramel into a jar and leave to rest in the fridge

Nougat

In a bowl, mix 300g of sugar with 6 egg whites

Beat the egg whites in a bain-marie for 5 minutes, remove from the heat, beat for another 5 minutes

Add 300g of butter at room temperature

Chocolate fondant

Melt 125g of chocolate in a bain-marie.

Liquid to soak

Mix 250ml of milk with 2 tbsp unsweetened peanut butter and 1 tbsp cocoa powder.

Building the cake

On a cake stand, place a cake, soak, cover with nougat, a little caramel in the center, add a cake, soak, cover with nougat, a little caramel and some crushed salted peanuts, add the last cake , cover with nougat, a little caramel

Cover the entire cake with nougat, pour chocolate on top and a few peanuts

Book cool

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