Magic Custard Cake
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| Magic Custard Cake | |
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| Servings: | About 16 |
| Ready in: | 1 hour, 30 minutes |
| Prep. time: | 30 minutes |
| Cook time: | 1 hour |
| Difficulty: | 
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| Recipe author: | JuliaBalbilla |
| First published: | 10th April 2013 |
Interesting egg custard cake with 3 distinct layers that are created/separate during the cooking
Ingredients
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- 4 Eggs (separate yolks from whites)
- 1 tablespoon Water
- 2 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
- 150 g Sugar/Icing Sugar
- 125 g melted butter or margarine
- 115 g of flour
- 500 g warm milk (pint)
- 4 drops of vinegar
- icing sugar or icing to decorate
Mise en place
Preheat the oven to 160C (Fan)
Method
- Grease a 20x20cm ovenproof dish/tin (not larger), in the pictures below my dish is around 20x15cm, it makes the cake a little deeper.
- Melt butter in microwave, once melted, it should be left to cool a little
- Cream the egg yolks, sugar, water, vanilla essence until thick & creamy
- Beat in the melted butter
- Sieve in the flour and beat into the mixture in several stages
- Add the milk and beat again with the mixer
- In a separate bowl whisk the egg whites and 4 drops of vinegar until stiff
- Gently fold/mix the egg whites into the main batter.
- Pour the mixture into the dish
- Bake for around 60-70 minutes or until golden on top, my fan oven is always 70 mins.
- Wait until cool and sift icing sugar onto the top.
- Cut, serve and eat!
Recipe source
- MaBel's Blog in spanish - http://decoraciondemabel.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/tarta-magica.html, translated/transcibed by Google/Cakey
Variations
Switch 50g of flour for cocoa for a chocolate version
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