Check out the melt-in-your-mouth cake recipe is a truly traditional cake recipe that combines crispy, baked choux pastry with an incredibly indulgent mousseline cream.
To make the recipe a success, you need to carefully measure the ingredients and prepare them before starting the recipe.
You must also respect the cooking time and temperature, so follow the steps described below step by step.
For approximately 8-10 people
Ingredients :
For decoration:
Powdered sugar
For the dough:
125 g butter
1 tbsp. teaspoon of baking powder (optional)
25 cl of water
5 medium eggs (or 4 large eggs)
1 cup of T 45 or T 55 flour (150 g)
For the cream:
250 g of butter
80 cl of milk
2 sachets of vanilla sugar
80 g of flour
2 egg yolks
¾ cup of sugar (150 g of sugar)
80 g of potato starch
The cake preparation melts in your mouth
Prepare the dough: boil the water and butter in a saucepan. Add all the flour and cook for another 2-3 minutes, stirring vigorously, as for choux pastry (for example using a whisk or a wooden spoon).
The dough should be smooth, form a ball and come away from the walls. Leave to cool a little, then add the eggs, one by one, mixing everything well, finally add the yeast (optional), mix well.
Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Divide the dough in half. Line the rectangular pan with baking paper (or butter and flour). Roll out half the dough into a rectangle (35cm x 24cm) thinly using a spoon. Cook the dough for about 20 minutes at 180°C.
The dough should be golden and crunchy; If it is too soft when it comes out of the oven, cook a little longer. Repeat the operation for the other half of the dough, cooking a second rectangle.
Prepare the cream: boil 2 cups of milk and sugar. Beat the remaining milk with the egg yolks, vanilla sugar, flour and starch. Add this mixture to the boiling milk, stirring vigorously to avoid the formation of lumps.
Cook for about 1-2 minutes. Let it cool a little. Add the soft butter and mix until you obtain a smooth cream.
Distribute the cream evenly on the first rectangle of dough, cover with the other. Store in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours. Dust with icing sugar before serving. Happy tasting!