I needed a cake for a double birthday I threw yesterday for Mariusz (46) and Ewa (43). I chose the charlottle from mojewypieki.com just by looking at it, never made one before, never tasted it. It was fun to make,  not too complicated, but I still changed a few things, having read the reviews.

I baked my usual sponge with 2 eggs, sliced it in half horizontally and then started building the cake with the tiramisu kind biscuits, having to “shave” the last one to fit it in perfectly, sponge nr 1 neatly on the bottom. And still a little bit of the mango mousse escaped, but nothing that couldn’t be tidied up.

For the mango layer I used a small can of mango puree, the 450 g one, roughly 270 ml of double cream and 4,5 gelatine leaves. I skipped the orange juice and zest, but next time I’ll use less cream, it wasn’t mango enough for me. On top of it went the sponge number 2. To the fridge to set for an hour. On that some whipped cream and mascarpone,lightly sweetened, half and half, to which I added a few tbsps of the orange jelly that was waiting to go on top. On the creamy layer I arranged some thinly sliced canned peaches, a few bits of cherries in kirsch ( pomegranate seeds would have been better but I didn’t fancy buying the whole fruit to use a few seeds), then jelly and the whole thing rested in the fridge overnight.

It came out of the tin without any problems, a ribbon was added for extra touch too.

My only complaint would be that the biscuits did not soak up any of the filling and were quite dry, Macy enjoyed then, while we ate the inside.  🙂