The pièce de résistance for 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BAKING is Mirror Glaze Vanilla Sponge Cake!!! A beautiful cake and you can check yourself out on it!!
Have you ever seen a picture of a dessert and think ,”Wow!! That’s impressive. I want to make that!” I always think like that. I hope I’m not the only one! I’ve been seeing so many pictures of the cake on Pinterest and videos on YouTube. I thought it was hard to make but once I really take a look at the recipe, it’s not hard at all!! You can use frozen cakes or cheesecakes. Next time I’ll do the frozen cheesecake!
I do have to tell you that his cake is a true labor of love. It does take some preparation and some freezing time but it’s not too hard to make. The main focus on this post will be the mirror glaze. The ingredients are things that you probably usually use in baking. The one unique ingredient that is used for this recipe is gelatin. Gelatin comes in two different forms, sheets and powder. I have seen this mirror glaze recipe using either sheets or powder. This is the one that I used.
After you make the glaze and it comes to room temperature, comes the best and nerve-wracking part of this cake. Pouring the glaze!!! For easy clean up, don’t forget to line up your baking sheet with foil. Or else, it’s another thing that you have to wash and washing a baking pan filled with glaze is just going to be too messy.
I cannot stress enough but you must have a frozen cake. You don’t want to make this beautiful glaze and have it just melted because of the glaze. When you pour the glaze, you have to be confident, steady and pour with love. I am so excited to tell you that this is my 1st video on the blog! A homemade amateur video but it’s made with my sons so it has a special place in my heart. Sorry about the mess but that means we’re baking something delicious!! Listen to the commentator at the end!!
I love it!!! Here is the side view!! After you glaze, as you can see from the picture, you will have some drips on the bottom. You want to let it drip for about 5 minutes and then with the back of the spoon, just clean up the excess glaze. Hooray for glaze!!!
Tips for making this Mirror Glaze
- You need to chill the cake so that the frosting won’t melt.
- You can also use cheesecake or cake or mouse but make sure that it is frozen.
- Make sure that
Happy Baking!!!
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- 4 eggs
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 1 cup milk
- 8 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup cake flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 8 oz butter
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp milk
- A pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup strawberry jam
- 3 cups sugar
- 2 cup water
- 1 1/3 cup condensed milk
- 4 cups white chocolate chips
- 4 tbsp unflavored gelatin
- gel food coloring
Ingredients
Strawberry Buttercream
Mirror Glaze
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- Sift together flour, cake flour, baking powder and salt.
- Combine milk and butter and microwave until butter is melted. Add the vanilla.
- Grease 2 9-in pan with magic pan release and line the bottom with parchment paper.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Make a double boiler by filling a pot 1/4 full with water and bring it to a boil.
- Reduce the heat and simmer. Place the Stand Mixer bowl on top of the pot. The water should not be touching the bottom of the bowl.
- In the bowl, add eggs and sugar and whisk with a hand whisk until sugar is dissolve the mixture reaches 115 degrees F.
- Move to the stand mixer. Whip the eggs with high speed for about 5 minutes until it becomes 5x in volume.
- Fold in little by little the dry ingredients into the stand mixer bowl.
- Take out 2 cups of the cake batter into a large bowl and with a hand whisk add the hot melted butter mixture to that batter. Whisk until everything is combined.
- Add that mixture back into the stand mixer bowl and whisk until combined.
- Pour batter into a prepare baking pans. Each should weigh about 2 oz with the pans.
- Bake for 35 minutes until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Beat butter. Add sugar, vanilla, salt and beat until light and fluffy.
- Add milk and jam. Beat again until it reaches frosting consistency. Use this frosting to frost the vanilla sponge cake.
- Freeze the cake for about 4 hours. The cake needs to be frozen before pouring the mirror glaze.
- Line a large baking sheet with foil and put a glass in the middle. This is for easy clean up.
- Bloom gelatin by mixer the gelatin with 1/4 cup of water.
- Place white chocolate in a large bowl
- Over medium heat, stir together water, sugar and sweetened condensed milk. Stir until it bubbles.
- Add the gelatin and stir until it dissolves.
- Pour this mixture over the white chocolate and stir. You want all the white chocolate to be completely dissolved.
- Strain the mixture into a large measuring bowl. Add the food coloring and stir.
- Keep stirring until the mixture is about 85 degrees or room temperature. We don't want a cold mixture because it won't pour easily but we don't want a hot mixture because it will melt the cake.
- Put the frozen cake on top of the glass. Pour the glaze in the center and let the glaze fall of the side. Let drip and the clean the bottom of the cake.
- Serve at room temperature.
Adapted from : Gretchen's Bakery, Food Network, Chelsweets
