Cake with pastry cream
Description
Homemade tea-time baking. The German “Milk Girl” cake is made with all kinds of cream, but its base—thin layers on condensed milk—always stays the same. In this step-by-step recipe I will tell you, Serve cooled or slightly warm.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients.
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Step 2
It is best to start making the cake with the cream so that it is ready by the time the sponge layers finish baking. To do this, mix the flour, sugar, and vanilla sugar.
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Step 3
Beat 2 eggs into the dry mixture.
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Step 4
Mix until smooth, pour the milk into a saucepan, and heat it, but do not let it come to a boil.
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Step 5
First pour in half of the hot milk and stir well; then pour in the second half of the milk, stir again, and pour back into the saucepan.
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Step 6
Heat over constant vigorous stirring until thickened.
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Step 7
Cool the cream slightly, add 100 grams of butter, and mix until smooth.
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Step 8
Cover the pastry cream with plastic wrap pressed directly onto the surface, then chill.
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Step 9
To make the dough for the cake layers, pour condensed milk into a mixing bowl, add the eggs, and beat until light and fluffy.
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Step 10
Mix the flour, starch, baking powder, and vanilla sugar, then add a pinch of salt.
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Step 11
Pour 30 grams of melted butter into the dough, add the dry mixture, and knead the dough.
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Step 12
Prepare 2 sheets of baking paper, preferably silicone-coated. Draw a circle 25 cm in diameter on the paper (keeping in mind that the assembly ring will be 24 cm in diameter). Spread the batter in a thin layer within the circle; this will take 2–3 tablespoons of batter. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees. Bake each layer for 5–7 minutes. Do not brown them too much.
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Step 13
While the first layer is baking, prepare a second baking sheet with dough. As soon as it is done, remove the baked layer from the sheet while it is still hot and trim it to fit the assembly pan. Spread the dough for the next layer on the same sheet; you should end up with 6–7 layers.
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Step 14
Whisk the chilled cream with a mixer before use.
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Step 15
To assemble the cake, place the layers one after another and spread each with cream.
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Step 16
Put all cake layer trimmings into the blender jar and blend them into crumbs.
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Step 17
Remove the mold used for assembly, sprinkle the sides of the cake with crumbs; you can decorate the top with anything you like. In this recipe, chocolate shavings and berries were used.
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Step 18
Let the cake soak for 2–3 hours. It turned out extraordinarily tender and very tasty. A real showpiece for the festive table!