Description

Roll
Roll Brazo de Gitano (Gypsy Arm) - a confection made from layers of large, thin, chocolate biscuit without flour, without butter, covered with delicate custard cream and rum in the form of a roll (or cylinder). This dessert is included in the list of "25 most popular desserts in the world".

Ingredients

  • Dark chocolate

    175 g

  • Chicken egg

    5 piece

  • Powdered sugar

    175 g

  • Cream

    1 pack

  • Rum

    2 Tbsp

  • Milk

    120 ml

Cooking

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Roll Brazo de Gitano, I cooked half of these ingredients. The size of my pan 28*22 cm 1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Melt in a water bath chocolate and let cool.
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2. Separately, whip the whites with a pinch of salt.
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3. Then, whisk the egg yolks with sugar until light, thick cream.
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4. Mix the yolk cream with the cooled melted chocolate, carefully stir the mass until smooth.
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5. Carefully enter the beaten egg whites.
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6. The dough is the consistency of a liquid sour cream.
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7. Line a rimmed baking sheet baking paper and pour on it the dough. Oil paper, I did not grease. Flatten the dough, trying to avoid bubbles.
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8. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes. If after 20 minutes had bumps, pierce them with a dry toothpick and depakite the cake. Remove the cake from the oven, allow to cool slightly on the baking sheet.
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9. Then put a wet towel on a cutting Board. Carefully remove the cake from the pan and lay on a damp towel. Moist, but not wet, i.e. wet and well squeezed.
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10. Leave the loaf to cool down.
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11. Prepare The Cream. For this we need to take 2 tablespoons of rum and pour into maroczy Cup. Pour cold milk to 150 ml. Then add 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar and the dry mixture is "Whipped cream". Carefully and slowly stir, then beat with a mixer at high speed until stiff peaks.
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12. The cooled cake carefully turn them over to dried out towel, remove the baking paper.
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13. Put most (2/3) of the cream...
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14... and use the towel to turn the cake roll Brazo de Gitano.
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15. Dry edges cut, you can dry it in the oven and crumble.
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16. Here, I'm trying the cream, as it lies on the biscuit. Kept very not bad, but the taste of this sweet.
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17. And back to the decoration of the roll Brazo de Gitano. Cover the roulade with the remaining cream, I already got it on the roll, smooth it with a silicone spatula and sprinkle the loaf chopped dried crumbs. Can be decorated with shavings of chocolate. Roll Brazo de Gitano is ready! Enjoy your tea!
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