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Cantaloupe Cream Cake Recipe


Cantaloupe Cream Cake Recipe
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I always loved cantaloupes and i really wanted to make a cantaloupe dessert.It was really great except that it should be served immediatly once out of the fridge.You can also try it with pineapple.

Ahmed1

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Ingredients
  • Cake:
  • 4 Eggs, separated
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 4 Tb Cold water
  • 1 cupSifted cake flour
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • Cantaloupe cream:
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 tbsp. flour
  • 3 eggs, beaten
  • 1 cup cantaloupe, pureed
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 2 tbsp. butter

Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 350F,grease a 20cm loose bottom cake pan with butter,line with parchement paper and grease the paper.
  2. Beat egg yolks and sugar together until very light. Add water. Sift together flour and baking powder. Add to batter. Beat egg whites until stiff. Fold into batter. Pour batter into prepared pan.
  3. Bake. Cool completely and invert onto cake platter.Slice cake in half and return one half into the cake pan after being washed.
  4. Cantaloupe cream:
  5. 1-Chop up 1/4-1/2 a cantaloupe and puree in a food processor. 1/2 a smallish cantaloupe will make around 1.5-2 cups.
  6. 2-Combine the sugar and flour in a saucepan; add eggs, mixing well. Stir in the cantaloupe puree. Turn heat on to medium and cook, stirring constantly, for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and butter. Set aside to cool, and chill once cooled for 3 hours.
  7. 3-Take out from fridge,give it a stirr and pour over the first cake slice prepared in the loose bottom cake pan,cover with the second cake slice.
  8. 4-Whisk the liquid cream with the powder sugar untill stiff peaks and spread it over the top of the cake evenly using a spatula.Using a strait sharp knife,make 4 paralall decorative stripes .Chill

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Sounds very light, yet still decadent! And, a surprise flavour with canteloupes! Wonderful recipe! Thank you, Ahmed1.


Wounderfully delicious..yummmy!!!


This looks great. Do you think you could come up with a pistachio cream cake? I have tried....haven't figured it out yet....


This sounds great. It is a fantastic recepie, I am a big fan of canteloupes.


Lovely idea


Dammit, if only I had a food processor!!


Fantastic!


That looks so good and refreshing. im going to try it out soon


Sounds very refreshing! Great post! Jett


You've done it again! Another winner of a recipe! How unique to use cantelope in a dessert recipe. Ahmed this sounds so light and refreshing. Another perfect dessert for the spring and summer months! Thank you!


I think i am going to fnally try this out tomorrow. but i have a few questions...☺
for the canteloup cream, once its cooled, what consistency is it at and also when it is cooking. and its in a springform pan right?
by the way can i use honeydew instead?
THX!


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