Princess cake
Princess cake recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 egg
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup potato flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3 egg whites
- Cream filling:
- 1 1/2 teaspoons unflavored gelatine
- 2 tablespoon cold water
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons potato flour
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 slightly beaten egg yolks
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup whipping cream, whipped
- Topping:
- 1, 9 ounces, roll almond paste, marzipan
- Few drops green food coloring
- Confectioners sugar
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Butter and flour a deep round 8 or 9 inch springform pan.
- In a small mixer bowl, mix 3 egg yolks with 1 whole egg.
- Add the 2/3 cup sugar.
- Beat at high speed of electric mixer until white and fluffy, scraping sides of bowl often.
- Sift together flour, 1/4 cup potato flour and baking powder.
- Stir into creamed mixture. Mix well. Wash beaters.
- In another bowl, beat egg whites at high speed until stiff peaks form.
- Carefully fold into flour mixture.
- Pour batter into pan.
- Bake at 375 degrees F for 30 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly near center.
- Cool on rack.
- Remove cake from pan when it has cooled 10 minutes.
- Continue to cool on rack.
- Cream filling:
- Soften gelatine in cold water.
- Mix 1 tablespoon sugar and 2 teaspoons potato flour in top of double boiler.
- Stir in a little heavy cream until sugar and flour dissolve.
- Stir in 2 egg yolks, then remaining cream, until blended.
- Cook over simmering water until smooth and thick, stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat. Stir in gelatine and vanilla extract until gelatine dissolves.
- Stir occasionally until completely cool, but not set, about one hour at room temperature.
- Fold into whipped cream.
- Topping:
- Place almond paste in a food processor with a steel knife.
- Add enough green food coloring to tint paste pale green.
- Process until a smooth ball forms.
- Roll out between two sheets of wax paper into a circle large enough to cover the top and sides of cake.
- Divide cake into 2 layers.
- Spread filling between layers and on top of cake.
- Roll almond paste topping loosely onto rolling pin, then drape over cake.
- Smooth down over sides and trim around base of cake.
- Use scraps of paste to reroll and cut out small decorative shapes such as hearts and leaves.
- If desired, use small amounts of additional almond paste tinted pink for special cut out shapes.
- Sprinkle cake lightly with confectioners sugar.
- Refrigerate until serving time.
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