Gâteau au chocolat de Nancy
Nancy, the city.
Lorraine has two capital cities. The real one and the fake one that pretends. Well, I know which is real but that’s not the topic.
The situation has advantages. The region has two iconic traditional chocolate cakes. One for Metz, one for Nancy.
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Gâteau de Nancy
The official recipe.
My proportions : 2 eggs, 60 g each for chocolate and butter, 1 tbs each for cocoa and flour, 1 ts sugar.
Not your grandma’s usual yogurt, not her salon de thé ‘s truffe au chocolat. I had no intention to remake them. The cake ended up similar just like that as I was improvising. Lucky !
Freshly made soy yogurt
It’s the greatest soy yogurt for me. Commercial soy yogurt are always on the runny side of creamy, or on the jello side. And the Japanese soy yogurt, oh my, I’d never eat that, it’s over-sweetened and flavored with with stevia that I loath.
This one has a texture of… yogurt. And a taste of soy. It’s perfect.
Don’t skip the sugar, it helps maturation and the result is not sweet at all.
Easy recipe :
-make one liter of thick tonyu soy milk (tutorial)
-in a small cup mix 1 tbs of potato starch, 1/4 of agar, 1/2 cup of soy milk. Cook a few seconds in the micro-wave till its thickens. You get a mess.
-in the blender, mix the warmed soy milk, the cup of starch, 1 tbs of sugar, 2 tbs of store bough soy yogurt
-let overnight in a yogurt maker
Tip : you can take a thermos/thick pot with a lid, place glass bin in the middle, very hot water around…and you have a yogurt maker. I do that for smaller batches.
Freshly made soy ‘Greek’ yogurt.
Drained in a cheese cloth (from the pharmacy), let overnight in the fridge. Drink the whey or use it for cooking, it’s full of healthy probiotics.
Other dairy-like ideas : my diary-free diary.
Now, let’s make the cake : I whip all that to make a chocolate mousse.
A nutty biscuit base (just blend all together).
Composition : the base, a layer of mousse, slices of kumquat, more mousse, cocoa.
The result is really bluffing. That’s not exactly looking like those from the pâtissier‘s, but that’s as close as you dream of getting for some sweet you make like that in 10 minutes. Taste is divine…
These kinkan (kumquats) are still in season and visible in the streets.
A cake from the heart… for chocolate day in Japan.
Mmm… the best of chocolate and some early strawberries.
It’s an okara cake, nearly a classic of this blog :
1 cup of wet okara (tofu fibers, DIY here)
1 egg
40 g of melted dark chocolate
1 ts of sugar
1 tbs of coconut cream
1 ts of potato starch (optional if the batter is very liquid)
Mix well and bake (I trust my oven).
Then I sprinkled a little bitter almond extract on the cooling cake, and later cut strawberries.
I used silicon molds to make the little fans.
Gâteau au chocolat de Metz. Original version.
Once upon a time, chocolate cakes had a golden skin…
…and a fluffy tiger dot flesh.
The chocolate of that time was different, that’s why. Chocolate was not sweet and would not melt. So you can enjoy the contrast of dark bitterness and soft creamy cake.
I see eggs everywhere. Maybe Easter is coming soon…
GOURMANDE in OSAKA 