Cakes and Pastries Recipes - Tropez Cake Recipe

Ingredients

Serves 8-10:

• 3 fl oz milk

• 3/4 oz yeast

• 2 1/2 oz soft butter

• 12 1/3 oz flour

• Juice of 1/2 lemon

• 1 egg

• 1 3/4 oz (50 g) confectioners' sugar

• 1 pinch of salt

• 2 tbsp crystal sugar

• 4 tbsp granular sugar

Pastry cream:

• 1 1/3 cup milk

• 1 vanilla pod

• 2 1/8 oz (60 g) sugar

• 4 egg yolks

• 1 oz (30 g) flour

• 6 fl oz (180 ml) cream, whipped

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Method:

1. Warm the milk and add the yeast. Combine 1 3/4 oz (50 g) of butter and the milk in a bowl. Place the flour in a mixing bowl, making a well in the center.

2. Place the butter-milk mixture, lemon juice, egg, confectioners' sugar, and salt in the well. Knead together until the dough resembles brioche dough. Allow to rest at room temperature for 2 h.

3. Knead the dough again, roll it out, and shape it to a thickness of 1/2 an inch. Grease a baking sheet and place the dough on it. Dust with crystallized sugar. Allow it to rise again for another hour.

4. Preheat the oven to 340°F/170°C. Bake for 20 - 25 min.

5. Prepare the pastry cream: bring the milk to a boil, adding the split and scraped vanilla pod. Beat the sugar and egg yolks until the mixture turns light and fluffy. Add the flour and slowly pour in the milk. Pour this mixture into a saucepan and cook over low heat, continuing to whisk until the mixture thickens. Allow to cool and fold in the whipped cream. Cool completely, stirring frequently to keep a skin from forming. Chill.

6. Remove the cake from the oven and cool on a cooling rack. Cut it into two layers and garnish one with pastry cream. Assemble the layers and decorate with granular sugar.