Sponge (like a barely cooked mousse)
125 g Guanaja chocolate
50 g sugar
30 g pastry flour
A pinch of bicarbonate of soda
125 g softened butter
4 egg yolks
4 beaten egg whites
Ganache
230 g Valrhona 70%
250 g double cream
60 g softened butter
Pastry cream
8 egg yolks
80 g flour
200 g fine sugar
1 split vanilla pod
1 l whole milk
Raspberries
Penja pepper
To make the sponge, melt the chocolate. Mix in the sugar, flour and bicarbonate of soda.
Bake in the oven in a mould lined with sulphur paper for 30 min at 120°C.
Prepare a ganache mixing the melted chocolate, double cream. Then the softened butter.
Make 400 g of pastry cream with the whole milk, vanilla pod, egg yolks, flour and fine sugar.
Mix the ganache into the pastry cream, preferably in a blender to obtain a nice creamy consistency.
Using a piping bag with a nozzle, spread a layer of this creamy ganache onto the cake.
Season the raspberries with some coarsely crushed Penja pepper (this is optional, but it’s the little extra that makes the difference).
Spread the raspberries over the ganache, and dust with vanilla-flavoured icing sugar.
Serve with a good ice cream.
