Recipe - Gateau Russe Aux Noix

CAKE
6 Whites
100 g Sugar
120 g Almond powder
120 g Icing sugar
50 g Flour
Vanilla

BUTTER CREAM
180 g Sugar
80 g Water
6 Yolks
360 g Butter
Coffee extract

SYRUP
50 g Sugar
100 g Water
20 g Rum

GARNISH
50 g Chopped walnuts
8 Walnut halves

CARAMEL
150 g Water
150 g Sugar
Juice of 1 lemon

Marzipan

Mix almond powder, icing sugar, and flour together. Beat whites to froth,
add sugar, beat to firm peak. Incorperate powder into whites. Add vanilla
now if using extract, if using powdered, add with almond powder. Pour into
chemisier'd round pan, 8 inches or so, and bake at 375390 till it's done.

Boil sugar and water together. While it's boiling, beat the yolks over a
double boiler untill they are light and fluffy. When the syrup reaches soft
ball, pour into yolks and continue beating untill it is cool or it reaches
ribbon stage (creme will form a ribbon that will stay on the surface for a
while before sinking).

Beat the butter till it's the same consistancy as the creme. Mix the two
together and add the coffee extract.

Boil the sugar and water for syrup, add rum.

Boil the sugar and water for caramell, take it to the point where it just
starts to change color. Remove, dunk the nuts in and let cool. You will
have to crush the chopped walnuts, as they will now be a big sticky mess.

Cut the cake in half, spread with syrup, add a layer of butter cream,
sprinkle with chopped nuts, spread the top part with syrup, place on top of
cake, and cover with butter cream. Decorate with butter cream rosettes and
walnut halves.

Posted on rec.food.recipes by ah787@freenet.carleton.ca (Bill Stuart)

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