This is a 'Mrs Cake', for a birthday dinner, but very simple in the execution. It has three ice cream tastes, that you obtain in doing the same thing three times. I used some figues, because one month ago it was their season yet, but you can choose the fruits you prefer. In the book where I took this recipe there were strawberries, so let's choose according to the seasons!
The only suggestion is to prepare the cake the day before, for the long times of cooling.
Ingredients for 10 :
1,8 lit whipping cream
400 g icing sugar
200 g dark chocolate (60%)
2 vanilla beans
200 g fruits (raspberries, soft fruits…)
Cut the sponge cake into 2 discs. Take a serving plate and place a split ring, within which put the first disc. Whip 1 lit of very cold cream with 200 g of icing sugar. Divide it into three equal parts in three different bowls. And put in the refrigerator.
Melt 100 g of dark chocolate in a double boiler, lett cool and pour into one of the three bowls of whipped cream. Spread this chocolate cream over the first disc of sponge. Level it with a spatula and put in the freezer for 15 minutes.
Whip the remaining cream with the icing sugar (200g). Take the cake out from the freezer; release it from the movable ring and cover completely with the whipped cream using a pastry bag. Let stand in the refrigerator another for 2 1/2 hours yet. Melt the remaining chocolate (100g) and when it is cool you can follow the original recipe by pouring it on the cake making it fall down to the edges, in this case you must double the amount of chocolate.
I have however chosen to do some decorations using a pastry bag with a very thin hole: on a sheet of baking paper placed on a very cooled tray (put it in the freezer) you can make writings or little decorations, by letting fall down the chocolate, that for the thermal shock will immediately solidifies. Put the decorations again in the freezer and use when needed and at pleasure.
