Pancake cake with cherry confit

This simple and delicious cake can be a wonderful dessert, or an interesting breakfast idea!
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Pancake cake with cherry confit

Ingredients

Chocolate pancakes
flour
110g
3.85oz
0.44cup
7.37tbsp
cocoa
25g
0.88oz
1.68tbsp
baking soda
0.5tsp
water
140ml
4.62fl oz
0.56cup
9.38tbsp
milk
140ml
4.62fl oz
0.56cup
9.38tbsp
vegetable oil
20ml
0.66fl oz
1.34tbsp
eggs
2pc
sugar
1Tbs
salt
0.5tsp
boiling water
50ml
1.65fl oz
3.35tbsp
Confit
cherries
300g
10.50oz
1.20cup
20tbsp
sugar
70g
2.45oz
0.28cup
4.69tbsp
agar
3g
0.11oz
0.20tbsp
Mousse
milk
200ml
6.60fl oz
0.80cup
13.40tbsp
sugar
50g
1.75oz
3.35tbsp
vanilla sugar
20g
0.70oz
1.34tbsp
cornstarch
30g
1.05oz
2tbsp
egg yolks
2pc
cream 33%
250ml
8.25fl oz
1cup
16.75tbsp
gelatin
6g
0.21oz
0.40tbsp
water
36g
1.22fl oz
mascarpone
300g
10.50oz
1.20cup
20tbsp
bitter chocolate
100g
3.50oz
0.40cup
6.70tbsp

Method

Chocolate pancakes

  • Combine all the dry ingredients, and mix.
  • Add water, milk and butter and mix with a mixer at low speed until combined.
  • Add the eggs, and keep mixing.
  • Put the batter into the fridge for an hour.
  • Before baking, pour in boiling water, mix up again.
  • Bake very thin pancakes. Let them cool. Use a 16cm mold to line each pancake.

* You can roll up the scappings and decorate the cake with them.

Confit

  • Place the berries and sugar on the stove, and cook until the sugar dissolves.
  • Stir the agar with a teaspoon of sugar; add to the cherries stirring intensely, and cook for another 3-4 minutes.
  • Remove from the stove, and let it cool.

Mousse

  • Soak the gelatin with water, and let it swell.
  • Slightly whip the yolks, sugar and vanilla sugar; add the starch, and stir. Trickle hot milk and do not forget to stir. Cook over medium heat with constant stirring until thickened.

* If lumps suddenly appear, mix with a blender until smooth. Dissolve the gelatin; add to the cream, stir and cool.

  • Combine the pastry cream with mascarpone, stir until fully combined.
  • Whip the cream until soft peaks and combine with the cream. Whip the cream at a medium speed for a minute.
  • Melt the chocolate and let cool. Add 5 tablespoons of mousse to the chocolate, stir.

Assembling

  • Assemble the cake in a 16-17 cm mold.
  • Lay the cling film down in the bottom of the mold, and cover the sides with acetate film.
  • Put one pancake on the bottom of the mold; pour the mousse with a ladle, and put another pancake. Repeat five times.
  • Then, a layer of cherry confit, pancakes and mousse again.
  • Then pour some chocolate mousse, cherry confit, and pancakes with mousse again.
  • The last layer should be the mousse.
  • Cover the cake with cling film, and put it into fridge overnight.
  • Remove the mold and the cling film in the morning.

You can decorate the cake with chocolate glaze or with pancake "roses".