This week's cake: colorful melon torte with yogurt cream

Before homegrown berries are ready, a melon torte offers a light and airy alternative. The yogurt cream torte gains special flavor and color from different melon varieties and watermelon balls.

For lovers of summer cake, the season is in full swing, but while Estonian berries are still ripening, it's worth turning to melon. A melon torte with yogurt cream is light, colorful, and surprisingly simple to make.

What to use?

The torte's distinctive feature is the use of different melon varieties-fruits with pale, green, and dark yellow flesh give the cream different texture, sweetness, and interplay of color tones. In addition to melon, it's worth stocking red watermelon, from which beautiful round balls are cut to decorate the torte.

Sponge base

To make the base, egg whites and yolks are separated. To the egg whites, a pinch of salt is added and whisked, adding sugar gradually until the foam is elastic and shiny. Then the egg yolks are folded in. Flour, cornstarch, and baking powder are sifted into the egg foam and stirred into a uniform batter.

The oven is heated to 180 degrees. The batter, transferred to a 20 cm springform pan lined with baking paper, is baked for 25-30 minutes. After removing the springform ring, the sponge base is cooled on a rack.

Yogurt melon cream

For the filling, 200 g of cleaned melon flesh (such as Cantaloupe) is processed with an immersion blender into a purée. Bloomed gelatin sheets are dissolved in hot water, then stirred into the cream prepared with yogurt, lime juice and zest, and sugar. When the yogurt begins to thicken, the melon purée is added and finally whipped cream is folded in.

The sponge is cut into three layers and covered alternately with cream layers. The remaining cream is spread on the top layer. The torte is refrigerated for at least three hours to set.

The finishing touch

Before serving, the springform ring is removed and the torte is decorated with round balls of melon and watermelon scooped with an ice cream scoop. The result is a visually delightful summer torte where different colors and flavors come together.