Sponge Cake
3 Eggs
40g Water
190 Optima Flour
1 tsp Orange flavour & a little orange colouring
45g Corn oil
- Put all ingredients in mixing bowl except corn oil and whisk till thick.
- Then slowly add in corn oil, mix well and pour into a 8" lined cake tin.
- Bake at preheated oven 180C for about 30 mins.
- Remove cake from tin, leave to cool and cut cake into 3 slices.
250g Orange juice
60g Sugar
2 Egg yolks
15g Gelatine
300g Fresh whipping cream
1 tsp Orange flavour
1 tbsp Cointreau (optional)
- In a pot, boil orange juice, sugar and gelatine together till sugar and gelatine dissolved.
- Leave pot from fire, add in egg yolks and stir well quickly and go through a sieve, leave to cool. (If liquid is too waterly, put in fridge for about 5 mins to let it curdle a bit)
- Whip up fresh cream till peak form and fold into orange mixture with a hand whisk, add in orange flavour and Cointreau.
- Sandwich the cake layers with orange mousse in an adjustable cake ring.
- Chill the orange mousse cake for at least 4 hours or overnight.
2 cans Mandarin orange (drain away syrup) - Place mandarin orange on top of mousse, put mousse cake in fridge and prepare jelly topping.
Jelly Topping
35g Sugar
250g Water
1 tsp Agar agar powder
30g Instant Jelly
- Boil jelly topping ingredients together and let it cool down a little. Then slowly pour liquid to cover the mandarin orange.
