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Friday, March 19, 2010

Pink cake


I did this for my friend's birthday, I was in a rush so I didn't have time to freeze it and all whipped cream melted by the time I arrived to the party. But it tasted really good and people didn't pay much attention to the cream anymore but don't do my mistakes and start making it yearly and let it stay in refrigerator for at least 2 hours! :)
Also there are three layers on the picture below but that's because I checked it too early and it didn't rise and I couldn't cut it in half(don't do my another mistake), so I made another cake, cut it in half and combined with the first one. Also in original recipe it is made with cacao instead of strawberry syrup. So you can make brown cake instead of the pink one :)

Ingredients:

Dough:
5 eggs
1 cup sugar
6 tbsp flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla
30 ml water

Cream:
2 cups milk
1 cup sugar
3 tbsp flour
1 tbsp starch
2 tbsp strawberry syrup(or cacao)

1.5 cup whipped cream
3 tbsp strawberry syrup(optional)
2 tbsp raspberry jam(optional)(don't use thick jam)

Preparation:
  1. Pour milk, sugar, flour, starch and syrup in the pot and cook it on medium temperature until it bubbles. Leave it to cool while you are preparing cake.
  2. Preheat oven to 170C. Place eggs and sugar into a bowl and whip it with mixer until it bubbles. After that add slowly flour, vanilla and baking powder while mixing. Add water and mix again. Pour this in baking dish and bake for around 35 mins until it gets slightly dark golden color(on picture you see the bottom of the cake, top must be a little bit lighter). Stick a knife or toothpick in it to check if it is done. But don't remove it too early it will or it will not rise.
  3. After you remove it immediately cut it horizontally in two pieces. On lower half pour the cream, spread raspberry jam and cover it with the other half.
  4. Beat whipped cream and leave around 100 ml for decoration(optional). Add strawberry syrup to the rest and beat it again. Cover cake with whipped cream and decorate it as you like. I decorated it with white whipped cream, strawberry syrup and skittles, but I'm bad at decorating, so fantasize.

Enjoy!

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