Ingredients FOR THE SPONGE CAKE

• 300 g 00 flour
• 250 g sugar
• 6 eggs
• 1 sachet of baking powder for desserts
• Lemon peel

BATH ingredients

Ingredients for making

• 500 g milk
• 150 g sugar
• 90 g dark chocolate
• 45 g corn starch
• 4 yolks
• vanilla bean

Ingredients TO DECORATE

• 500 g fresh cream
• lollipop
• red food coloring
• Macaron
• colored sugared almonds
• gummy candies
• Marshmallow
• cookies

FOR THE SPONGE CAKE
Whip 6 egg whites until stiff. Whip 6 yolks, using electric whips, with 6 tablespoons of boiling water; then add the sugar and a little finely grated lemon zest, continuing to whip until the mixture is light and frothy; add the flour and the baking powder while continuing to whip.
Incorporate beaten egg whites, stirring with a spoon with movements from the bottom upwards.
Grease and flour a plum cake mold (8x8x26 cm) and fill it with the mixture.
Bake in the static oven at 180 ° C for about 40 minutes. Check the cooking by inserting a toothpick into the cake: if, once extracted, it is clean, the cake is cooked. If you use the fan mode, reduce the temperature to 170 ° C and bake the cake for 30 minutes.
Turn out the cake, place it on a wire rack and let it cool completely before decorating it.

TO DO IT
Break up finely dark chocolate and collect it in a bowl. Heat the milk with the seeds of the vanilla bean.
Whip the yolks with the sugar and the corn starch in a bowl, pour the milk over the yolks, stir again, bring back to the heat and cook until the cream starts to take on a denser consistency.
Take away from the heat, pour it over the chopped chocolate and stir until it has melted. Let cool covered with contact film.

FOR THE BATH
Prepare a syrup by dissolving the sugar on the heat with 200 g of water.

TO DECORATE
Divide the plum cake in half lengthwise. Wet the two halves with the syrup.
stuffed with the chocolate custard. Close with the rest of the plum cake and brush the surface with the water.
Whip cream with a few drops of red food coloring, combining them until the desired pink is obtained.
Cover the plum cake with the pink cream spatulating it so that the layer is uniform and thick enough.
Decorated with whole or sliced ​​marshmallows, sugared almonds, colored macarons, gummy candy ribbons and lollipops.
place the cake in the fridge for 1 hour before serving.

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