This is a most simple cake with an amazing “look”!!!!!
I am going to tell you how to make this cake in the most simple way!
You do not have to go through baking the cake base by some old fashioned recipe…. my mother, once she discovered “Duncan Hines Butter Golden Box Cake Mix” … she never looked at another German Vanilla cake recipe.
It is however important what you fill this cake with once it is baked and cooled. I make a Creme Patissiere Butter Cream and use it as a filling and also as an icing…
You will need: Three cake layers, Vanilla Butter Cream, Strawberry Jam, whipped Cream and fresh strawberries to decorate the top of the cake!
Here is the recipe:
Maja’s Vanilla Butter Cream….
Make a thick custard first…
2 cups milk
1/3 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup sugar
2 large eggs
Place all the above ingredients into a saucepan and cook until it thickens and is thoroughly cooked. Keep mixing it continuously so that it does not burn on the bottom of the pan. Taste it to make sure it is completely cooked.
Cool the custard completely before you make the Vanilla Butter Cream!
When cooled place it into an electric mixer and mix it until soft and creamy…there should be no lumps in the custard.
Make Butter Cream…
4 sticks of unsalted butter (2 cups)
2/3 cup powdered sugar, sieved…it cannot have any lumps..
Cream the butter and sugar together until it is fluffy and light in color
While mixer is going add the cold/room temperature custard slowly to the butter mixture
Add all the custard, and mix slowly until it is all incorporated and and is pale yellow in color.
Now add Vanilla….about 2 to 3 tsp and mix well.
This cream is not as sweet as you are accustomed to creams in general in America…
If you like you can always add more powdered sugar to the cream…. and make it to your liking!
Filling the cake….
When baked and cooled completely….I like to bake my cakes a day before I fill them….to settle them a bit…
You need three layers….
When the layers are cut…add the Vanilla Cream and spread it over each layer…
Then add Strawberry Jam and spread it over the butter cream…and place the layers on top of each other…
Whipped Cream…..is optional….However I like to add the whipped cream over the butter cream…it always seems to me…that Strawberries need a little whipped cream to make them perfect.
Enjoy !
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