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Mango Gateau with peaches and cream Recipe
by Manju Nair

Mango Gateau with peaches and cream

A Gateau is a French style sponge cake traditionally made with cream and may be a multilayered cake.
I made this cake for a potluck at a friends place and everyone simply loved it...
Its really simple and easy to make and the rest is your imagination :-)
Inspiration is again from my friend , Ria's blog.

Rating: 4.8/5
Avg. 4.8/5 4 votes
Prep time: France French
Cook time: Servings: 12

Ingredients

  • For sponge cake:
  • Whole eggs - 6
  • Sugar - 1.5cups
  • All purpose flour - 2 cups
  • Baking powder - 1/2tsp
  • For the cream:
  • Heavy whipping cream - 1 cup
  • Mango pulp - 1 cup
  • Powdered sugar - 2tbsp
  • For topping:
  • Canned peaches with juice - 1 can
  • Strawberries - 4-5

Directions

  1. Preheat Oven to 350F
  2. In a bowl beat together the eggs and sugar until nice and fluffy (approx 5-10mins)
  3. Whisk together the flour and baking powder and slowly incorporate the flour into the egg-sugar mixture.
  4. Grease a baking tray slightly with butter and pour the cake batter in the cake pan.
  5. Bake for 25-20mins or until a tooth pick inserted into cake comes out clean and let it cool before removing from the cake pan.
  6. To prepare the cream topping:
  7. In a bowl beat the whipping cream until stiff peaks appear and slowly add the powdered sugar.
  8. Fold in the mango pulp.
  9. Cut the cake in half and pour some juice from the canned peaches on the inside(this further moistens and flavours the cake) and then put the mango cream over it.
  10. Coat the outer layers of the cake also with the mango cream and level it out smoothly with a butter knife.
  11. Decorate your cake with peaches, strawberries, mangoes, whipped cream etc...