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Malakoff cake

Creamy Malakoff cake – my family's recipe has been in my family's hands for decades. This is the perfect layer cake!
Rezept drucken Pin
Vorbereitungszeit 1 Stunde
Gesamtzeit 1 Stunde
Portionen: 12

Utensilien

  • Bowl
  • Whisk
  • Baking tin 24 cm
  • Sieve
  • Grater

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For the sponge cake:

  • 3 eggs
  • 80 g sugar
  • 1 pckg. vanilla sugar
  • 100 g flour
  • 2 tsp cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp baking powder

For the rest of the layers:

  • 1 pckg. ladyfingers
  • 100 ml orange juice
  • 1 splash rum
  • 1 pckg. vanilla cream/instant vanilla pudding mix to prep with cream/milk only
  • 300 ml heavy cream
  • 50 g grated chocolate
  • 1 lemon

Zubereitung
 

For the sponge cake:

  • Preheat the oven to 200 °C. Beat eggs, sugar and vanilla until creamy. Sieve flour, cocoa and baking powder and fold into the dough. Bake in a baking tin for approx. 12 minutes.
  • In the meantime, prepare the vanilla cream with 100 ml heavy cream. Whisk until creamy. Let the sponge cake cool, then top with vanilla cream.
  • Soak the ladyfingers in orange juice and rum. Arrange on the vanilla cream. Whisk the rest of the heavy cream until stiff. Put on the ladyfingers, top with grated chocolate and lemon zest or slices.

Tipps

You can also make homemade vanilla cream for the cake, but it's important that it is not too liquid to be layered on the cake.