The Pope ' shirt
Instructions
Splash orange juice a pan of Spain rectangle, spread with whipped cream in an even layer and lean over the other pan rectangle of Spain, lightly press down to adhere the two halves and remove any excess cream out from the edges. Sprinkle powdered sugar on work surface, knead for a minute the almond paste to soften.
Roll out the dough with a rolling pin into a sheet of 2 mm thickness and take a rectangle 37x30 cm.
Beat the egg white with a fork and brush the almond paste from one side. Roll out the marzipan over the cake, join the brushed, trimmed the excess dough at the edges.
Knead the rest of almond paste and divide it into two parts, one part stained with a drop of green dye, work the dough so that the dye spreads evenly. Dust the work surface with icing sugar, roll out the two pastes, green and white, in two layers from 2 mm thick. Cropped from a white rectangle puff 23 cm long and 6 cm wide, fold it in two pieces lengthwise, modellatelo giving it the shape of a shirt with two toes and place it over the sweet centered in the middle of the short side of the rectangle.
Cropped from a green long puff 50 cm and 7 cm wide at both ends and thinner in the Middle, sagomatela tie-shaped, forming a knot. Place it on the cake so that the node with the space between the tips of the collar, lightly press down with your hands to adhere the "tie" to "shirt".
Brush the lens of chocolate with a little egg white, on the one hand, and lying the lenses on the tie. Lift the cake with a large spatula, place it on a tray and keep it in the refrigerator, covered with plastic, until serving.
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Ingredients and dosing for 6 persons
- 850 g of sponge cake (2 30 x 23 high rectangles 1.5 each)
- 500 g almond paste
- 1 egg white
- 200 g of whipped cream sweetened
- half a glass of orange juice
- 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1 drop of green vegetable dye
- chocolate flat lenses (smarties)