Scouring Cake

Have you heard of illusion food? It means that the food made looks like something, but it is not. It is similar to the pictographic food we often say. There is a dessert chef in the United Kingdom, Ben Churchill, who especially likes to make this illusory food. His most famous work is It’s a scouring cake, just with photos and no recipes.

Ben Churchill’s masterpiece scouring cake

Two Bites, a young lady from Hong Kong who lived in South Korea, found it very interesting, so she made a copy at home.

So, we learned this with her. Everyone read this scouring pad cake. Like me, many people may have rejected it at first? Other people make pictographic cakes, they add icing on the cake. This scouring cake is a self-destructive cake design. It is a must-have “cleaning king” style for home travel ~ and it is easy to produce a bad association of the taste of detergent ~ But I didn’t expect it to be really amazing and delicious! Butter mango cake bottom + honey biscuit layer + orange foam, rich and fresh layer, unexpected taste experience, so although the appearance is like a cleaning maid, but the taste is like a first love girl, promise me, I must eat well ~

Materials

Egg cake body (8 inch square)
Unsalted butter 240g
Icing sugar 16g
Low gluten flour 160g
Corn starch 360g
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
4 eggs
Mango puree 40g

Layer
Digestive Cookies 30g
Baked honey 20g
Schumann natural green pigment amount (black or blue spare)

Black sugar juice
Baked honey 30g
Water 10g
Brown sugar / brown sugar 20g

Foam
Orange juice 40g
Gelatin powder 2g

Practice

Egg cake layer
① Cut the butter into pieces, soften at room temperature, lightly press up, and use an electric eggbeater to whitish and slightly swell, but not to the point where it is completely beaten, leaving room for the butter to be beaten when adding egg liquid, easy Oil-water separation.
② Add powdered sugar and beat evenly.
③ Eggs are added in two parts, after adding each time and stirring well, add the next time. If oil-water separation occurs at this step, it may be the result of the butter being passed in advance.
④Mix corn starch, baking powder and low-gluten flour evenly, add butter through sieve, and mix gently.
⑤Add mango puree and mix well.
⑥ Put the cake batter into the 8-inch square baking mold (the bottom and sides of the baking mold are covered with silicone oil paper to prevent sticking the mold) and smooth.
⑦Oven preheating Bake for 30 minutes at 170 ℃, let cool on the rack.

Green layer
①The digested biscuits are broken with a mixer, or you can crush them by yourself. The machine beats more delicately.
② Pour honey and mix well.
③Add green pigment, appropriate amount of black and blue, stir evenly, adjust dark green, let stand, and use.

Black syrup
① Pour honey, water and brown sugar into the milk pan.
② Bring to a boil until it becomes thick.
③ Pour into a bowl, let cool and set aside.

foam
① Fresh orange juice.
②Add the gelatin powder and mix well. Bring to a boil, turn off the heat and stir until the gelatin powder is completely melted.
③Pour it into the basin and use the electric eggbeater to make dense bubbles.

combination
① After cooling the cake, cut it into cake pieces the size of scouring pads.
②Roll the green biscuit into 1 ~ 2cm thin slices through the fresh-keeping bag.
③ Place the cake on it and cut out square pieces of the same size.
④Drag with the plastic wrap on the lower layer, cover the top of the cake, and stick it tightly.
⑤Prepare a plate, garnish some “syrup stains” with a spoon on the bottom of the plate, and place the cake on it.
⑥Decorate a little orange juice foam on the top to finish myself ~

In addition to the foam is not white enough, it is still quite realistic ~ I originally wanted to match a beautiful tablecloth, and found that this temperament is the best match with the rag ~

Make another small scouring pad, the housewife’s favorite ~

Although the shape of this product will remind people of the smell of detergent, don’t be fooled by its cleaning temperament! It ’s not like digging a bit ~

The simple mango butter cake may not be amazing to eat, but dipped in black syrup and accompanied by orange juice foam, the taste is both fresh and special, light fruity, sour and sweet, especially delicious. It’s a king ~ Really skr surprise ~