El Gansito is a very famous commercial pastry in Mexico, and that is, who does not like the combination of vanilla bread covered in chocolate with a filling of strawberry jam and cream? It’s a cupcake you have to try sometime! Now imagine this rich family size cupcake, amazing!
In this article we bring you a Gansito cake recipe, ideal for a family dinner or if you want to have a different birthday cake. Keep reading and discover with us how to make homemade goose cake.
Ingredients to make Gansito Cake:
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup of sugar (200 grams)
- 1 cup of wheat flour (140 grams)
- 1 cup of pancake flour
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder (chemical yeast)
- 4 tablespoons evaporated milk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup melted butter
- For the filling meringue:
- ½ cup of sugar (100 grams)
- 40 grams of water
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 egg whites
- For the coverage:
- 200 grams of chocolate
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 handful of chocolate shavings
How to make Goose Cake:
- To start the Gansito cake recipe, in a bowl, beat the eggs with the sugar for 5 minutes or until the sugar has completely dissolved.
- Mix the dry ingredients, that is, the wheat flour, the pancake flour, the baking soda and the baking powder.
- Add the dry ingredients to the egg-sugar mixture and beat for 3 more minutes.
- Add the butter, the tablespoons of evaporated milk and the vanilla extract and beat for 5 more minutes.
- If you prefer, you can make homemade evaporated milk so that Gansito’s cake recipe is even cheaper.
- Preheat the oven to 180 °C, pour the mixture into a previously greased and floured mold until just over half full, and do not fill it to avoid spills. Bake for 25 minutes.
- After the baking time, let the bread rest and cool on a wire rack. While it cools, proceed to prepare the meringue for the filling.
- To do this, in a saucepan, dissolve the sugar with the water and add 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract and heat over medium heat until reaching a temperature of 118 °C. Do the fork test to see if your syrup is ready.
- How? Insert the fork and the last drops that remain on the fork should remain there.
- Whip the egg whites until you get a foamy texture, then add the syrup you made and continue beating on medium speed until the syrup is tempered and you get a creamy, fluffy texture.
- This type of meringue is known as Italian meringue.
- If you have never done it before, you should know that the Swiss meringue is much easier.
- Cut a rectangle in the center of the top of your bread, but don’t throw away what you remove.
- Proceed to fill the hole with a little strawberry jelly, the meringue that you prepared and close with the portions of bread that you removed in the previous step.
- For the coverage, melt the chocolate, either in a water bath or in the microwave, add the butter, which must be at room temperature, and mix to integrate both ingredients.
- Cover the Gansito cake with the chocolate and spread it if necessary. Lean on a rack to make it easier to cover the bread.
- Before the chocolate dries, add the chocolate shavings to your liking.
- And ready! Since you can enjoy your homemade Gansito cakeaccompanied by a glass of cold milk and eat!
