Apple Cake With Marzipan Custard |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes |
Ready In: 0 Minutes Servings: 12 |
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Translated from an ethnic baking group, an apple cake topped with a marzipan custard Ingredients:
apple cake with and marzipan custard |
250 g butter or margarine |
250 g of sugar or appropriate amt of an artificial sweetener |
1 packet vanilla sugar |
5 eggs |
150 g flour |
100 g cornstarch |
2 tsp baking powder |
filling |
1 kg apples |
marzipan, custard filling |
1 liter milk |
2 pkg vanilla pudding or custard powder |
75 g sugar |
3 egg yolks |
3 egg whites |
200 g marzipan |
coarse sugar for sprinkling |
Directions:
1. Beat butter or margarine with sugar in an electric mixer at high speed till well belnded.
2. Gradually mix in sugar and vanilla sugar
3. Add eggs one at a time till well blended
4. Combine flour, cornstarch and baking powder add to creamed mixture on medium spreed to form a dough
5. Grease a deep baking pan ( 30 x 40 cm ) and add the dough mixture, smoothing it into the pan
6. Peel, core and slice apples and place slices in a tile fashion over the dough in pan
7. Mix 6 Tbs of the milk with the custard powder, sugar and egg yolks and set aside.
8. Cut the marizan into small pieces
9. Bring milk plus the marizpan in a pot to a boil to dissolve the marzipan.
10. If marzipan does not dissolve easily, carefully place marzipan in a food processor to process smooth
11. When the milk boils, stir in reserved pudding powder mixture, and bring to a boil again.
12. Remove mixture from heat
13. Beat egg whites stiff and fold into the custard mixture.
14. Spread over the apples
15. Bake 180 C about 45 minutes or golden and cooked
16. Cool on a wire rack and sprinkle with coarse sugar
17. Cool completely prior to serving.
18. May be chilled
19. Refrigerate leftovers
20. Note: .
21. If desired use an additional 100 grams of mrzipan and mix with some flour and a little powdered sugar and form a dough.
22. Roll out between two sheets of waxed paper and cut out leaves or decorations to place on each pie of cake
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