Buttery and tremendous moist, extremely fast and straightforward cake to organize with seasonal fruits, excellent for child’s snack, afternoon tea or breakfast.
What’s moelleux in French baking
Moelleux is an excellent gentle and moist cake, with the feeling that it melts in your mouth. Made with quite simple components, eggs, flour, sugar, and butter… A beneficiant quantity of butter for a decadent cake. Moelleux may appear fairly wealthy however I promise, I’ve decreased the quantity of butter in comparison with many French home-cooking recipes.
How I got here up with this recipe
This recipe comes from the mixture of my childhood reminiscences as my mum use to bale an upside-down cake with gentle apricots neatly organized as soon as unmold (I positively should ask her recipe) and a cake shared in social media by the French gastronomic critic François-Régis Gaudry. He wrote an unimaginable guide (half cookbook half data on French gastronomy, vital in case you’re a French Foodie) and runs on Sundays on the radio an excellent program referred to as “On va déguster”.
Be that as it might, this recipe is the proof that French pastry could be tremendous fast, straightforward. The one “sensitive” factor is that it’s essential have room temperature butter, thus taken out of the fridge an hour earlier than. Aside from that you just solely want to mix all components. No method, no tools wanted. Rapidly ready, shortly baked and but very tasty.
A number of data on the recipe:
- I recommend equal components of apricot and peach, however you possibly can range. Peach or nectarine, white or yellow. Apricot and peach or simply one of many two … and even plums or crimson fruits.
- It is a fast recipe the place you pour all of the components right into a bowl and coarsely mix. It’s okay if the dough isn’t even and clean. We don’t must blanch the eggs with sugar as it’s typically finished in truffles, nor to sift the flour, or to get a superbly clean dough.
- Sugar: I fairly often bake utilizing brown sugar now, however you possibly can change it with white sugar. In case your fruits are very ripe and candy, you possibly can cut back the quantity of sugar.
- Butter at room temperature is essential as a result of we roughly mix all of the components. If you’re utilizing chilly butter you will have a meals processor.
Moelleux Cake with Apricot and Peach
Buttery and tremendous moist, extremely fast and straightforward cake to organize with seasonal fruits, excellent for child’s snack, afternoon tea or breakfast
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500 gr of of pitted fruits
Bon appétit !
