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by Pamela Lim · 廖秀梅

Joshie – Mrs Lim’s Bowdy cake –

Joshie – Mrs Lim’s Bowdy cake –

It is the Youngest One’s birthday, and I wanted to make a nice cake for him. Being the youngest of five children is tough, I find myself not paying enough attention or spending enough time with him. Even simple treats like a birthday cake, I would just make really simple cakes, while when the older kids were young, they had really elaborate cakes as I was much less busy.

So I saw Andy Bowdy’s Rita recipe and would love to bake that for him. It is a long list of ingredients and complicated. But the results and the looks is impressive and I thought he’d like it that I put in the effort. Turned out he said he likes chocolate on chocolate. Like a pure ganache. Hm..

I surfed a little and found a number of Andy Bowdy’s cakes, but I thought… why not get his favourite ingredients and make a cake of my own, and one he’ll really love. I will make one with every component his favourite stuff.  So here it is. Andy Bowdy has a name for every cake. This one is called Joshie.

Recipe

Mrs Lim’s Andy Bowdy style cake

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Ingredients

Rich chocolate cake
  • 55 gdark chocolate, melted and allowed to cool slightly
  • 125 gbutter, at room temperature
  • 125 glight muscovado sugar
  • 1/4 tspsalt
  • 50 gcocoa powder
  • 125 gplain flour
  • 1 tspbaking powder
  • 2large eggs
  • 125 mlmilk
  • 25 gchocolate chips
Raspberry Bavarois
  • 2sheets gelatin, titanium strength, rehydrated by soaking in water
  • 100 gmilk
  • 60 gegg yolks
  • 60 gcaster sugar
  • 80 gseedless raspberry purée
  • 200 gpure cream
Oreo Crumbs
  • 200 gof Oreo biscuits, crushed with filings
Salted Rum Caramel
  • 100 gcaster sugar
  • 50 gglucose syrup
  • 25 gwater
  • 80 gpure cream
  • 15 grum
  • 2 gsalt
  • 35 gunsalted butter, cubed
Chocolate Ganache Drip
  • 200 gheavy cream
  • 200 gdark chocolate
Swiss Meringue/Marshmellow
  • 50 gegg whites
  • 80 gcaster sugar
  • Vanilla pod
Garnish
  • Maltesers
  • Kit Kat
  • Mars
  • Small Oreos
  • Anything you like!

Method

  1. Rich Chocolate Cake
  2. 01
    Cream the butter, salt and sugar until light and fluffy. Meanwhile, sieve the plain flour and cocoa powder.
  3. 02
    Emulsify one egg one at a time.
  4. 03
    Add the milk, and dry ingredients into three batches each, and add to the mixture alternating.
  5. 04
    Add the chocolate chips.
  6. 05
    Bake in a 6 inch round pan at 180C for 45 minutes.
  7. 06
    Allow it to cool completely to room temperature, then slice into 4 slices horizontally.
  8. Raspberry Bavarois
  9. 07
    Place the milk, egg yolks, sugar and raspberry purée into a large mixing bowl and whisk well to combine until mixture reaches 80°C.
  10. 08
    Add gelatin to to the mixture until it has dissolved completely.
  11. 09
    Strain the mixture through a fine sieve into a clean glass bowl and set aside to cool slightly. Ensure mixture does not cool to below 30°C to avoid setting.
  12. 10
    When ready to assemble the cake, whip the cream and fold into the cooled mixture.
  13. Oreo crumbs
  14. 11
    Blitz Oreo crumbs with their fillings in a food processor.
  15. Salted Rum Caramel
  16. 12
    Place sugar, glucose and water in a saucepan to a dark caramel, or until mixture reaches 196°C.
  17. 13
    Meanwhile, place the cream into the Thermomix or a small saucepan over low heat and warm gently.
  18. 14
    Once the caramel mixture reaches temperature, transfer to the Thermomix with the cream, and whisk in rum and salt until well combined. Add butter, a few cubes at a time, whisking well after each addition, until mixture is thick and glossy. Transfer the mixture tray and place into the freezer until cold but not hard, about 20 minutes. Then, transfer to a piping bag and set aside in the fridge until needed.
  19. Chocolate Ganache Drip
  20. 15
    Heat the cream until almost boiling.
  21. 16
    Add the chocolate and let it stand for 5 minutes until the chocolate has dissolved.
  22. 17
    Set aside until needed.
  23. Swiss Meringue
  24. 18
    Place all the ingredients in the mixer bowl, and place it over hot water, but not touching the water.
  25. 19
    Heat for 8 to 10 minutes until the meringue reaches about 70C.
  26. 20
    Whip it up until stiff peaks.
  27. 21
    I like swiss meringue because it is cooked and I think it is safer.
  28. Assembly
  29. 22
    FIrst freeze the Oreo layer. Then add 1/4 of the bavarois onto it, then put that into the freezer for 5-10 minutes.
  30. 23
    Pipe some salted caramel, a layer of chocolate cake, the bavarois and freeze again.
  31. 24
    Repeat these steps until all the cake and bavarois are used up.
  32. 25
    Top with the leftover chocolate cake crumbs.
  33. 26
    Cover half the cake with the meringue and let it drop.
  34. 27
    Pipe on the chocolate drip, then add the toppings.
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