For this month’s We Should Cocoa challenge, Choclette from Chocolate Log Blog chose rose as the special ingredient.
I instantly thought of a recipe for a white chocolate gateau from my favourite cookbook, Chocolate by Joanna Farrow. It uses creme fraiche mixed with rosewater as the filling for two white chocolate sponges, filled with buttercream.
Although that was the inspiration, I wasn’t utterly convinced by the creme fraiche idea, so I thought about how I could incorporate the rose into a different filling. Eventually I settled on making a raspberry rose jam, which would also serve the purpose of ticking jam off my to-bake list.
I was a little worried the cake would be too dry with just jam as the filling, so I also added some white chocolate cream cheese between each layer.
Just to go completely over the top I made white chocolate modelling paste roses and leaves to decorate the cake, and tie in with the rose theme.
This is a pretty grand cake, but luckily I had the perfect reason to make it, as one of my colleagues had her last day at work this week before going on maternity leave. Unfortunately she got sick and didn’t make it in for her last day, but we took the cake to her house instead and she was kind enough to give us half back to share in the office, which I think everyone had secretly been hoping she would. Thanks Sam!
White Chocolate Raspberry Rose Cake
For the sponge:
- 4 eggs
- 125g caster sugar
- 125g plain flour
- 50g white chocolate, grated
- 250g cream cheese
- 100g white chocolate
- 1 small jar raspberry rose jam
- 200g white chocolate
- 75g butter
- 125g icing sugar
- 2 or 3 tbsp milk
- 125g white chocolate
- 2 tbsp liquid glucose
No no, you can’t go over the for a we Should Cocoa challenge and it sounds as though you had the perfect reason for it to be truly appreciated too. It’s lovely and going the extra mile with the roses on top is admirable. The whole thing looks splendid and sounds delicious, no wonder your work colleagues wanted some. I want a slice too. Thank you for participating.
Elegant home made roses and I love the filling too. This is a real masterpiece to be proud of .
Wow what an amazing cake. The roses look so beautiful. I’m sure your colleagues thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thank you for all the lovely comments!
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