7 Layer Ombre Cake
Ingredients :
For the dough:
1 egg.
150 г. Sugar
30 г. Margarine
1 teaspoon soda
2 tablespoons honey
3 tablespoons milk
200 г. Flour
walnuts 200g
2 – 3 tablespoons cocoa
For the cream:
1 egg
2 tablespoons flour
100g. sugar
300 ml. milk
300 gr. butter
For frosting:
100g chocolate
100g butter
STEP BY STEP RECIPE :
STEP 1/5
Mix all ingredients except flour,nuts and cocoa and melt over low heat,cook until color changes. Toast the nuts in a dry pan, grind in a coffee grinder until finely ground and combine with the flour. Take the mass for the base off the fire, add the flour, nuts and cocoa, knead the dough.
STEP 2/5
Roll out in batches, cut out equal pancakes 4 – 5 mm and bake on a floured baking sheet very quickly, a couple of minutes. Remove flour from the crusts with a dry brush.
STEP 3/5
Cream: Beat the egg with the sugar, add the flour and pour in the milk, stirring a little at a time. Cook the custard in a water bath or over a very low heat, stirring constantly until it thickens. Let cool. Then whip melted butter and add a spoonful of custard without stopping to whip. You can also replace the cream with butter: Butter-250gm 1 can of condensed milk, mix well until homogeneous.
STEP 4/5
Cream the cake and leave for a couple of hours soaking, then pour the icing on top of the cake.
STEP 5/5
Frosting. Melt chocolate with butter in a water bath and pour over the top of the cake.