Strawberry Mini Cake

Ingredients

• 3 egg yolks (60g)
• 20g honey
• 3 egg whites (105g)
• 50g sugar
• 45g pastry flour
• 18g canola oil
• 220g strawberry
• 40g sugar
• 20g honey
• 5g lemon juice
• 20g raspberry puree (optional)
• 2 gelatin sheets (4g)
• 95g milk
• 1 vanilla bean
• 2 gelatin sheets (4g)
• 125g white chocolate
• 130g heavy cream
• 55g water
• 105g sugar
• 105g glucose or clear corn syrup
• 70g condensed milk
• 105g white chocolate
• 3 gelatin sheets (6g)
• 50g white chocolate
• 20g corn syrup
• green food coloring

Method

1. Preheat oven to 375F.
2. Make vanilla sponge: whisk egg yolks and honey.
3. Whip egg whites and sugar until stiff peaks form.
4. Fold egg whites into yolk mixture.
5. Sift pastry flour and fold into batter.
6. Add canola oil and mix gently.
7. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
8. Prepare strawberry honey jelly: cook strawberry, sugar, honey, lemon juice, and raspberry puree.
9. Soften gelatin sheets and add to hot mixture.
10. Cool jelly and pour into molds; yield 16 half spheres.
11. Make vanilla white chocolate mousse: heat milk with vanilla bean.
12. Soften gelatin sheets and dissolve in milk mixture.
13. Melt white chocolate and combine with milk mixture.
14. Whip heavy cream and fold into chocolate mixture.
15. Pour mousse into heart molds; yield 7 hearts.
16. Prepare glaze: heat water, sugar, glucose, and condensed milk.
17. Add white chocolate and gelatin sheets; mix until smooth.
18. Make modeling chocolate: melt white chocolate and corn syrup, add green food coloring.
19. Assemble cake layers with sponge, jelly, and mousse.
20. Glaze cakes and decorate with modeling chocolate.