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Recipe : **** Classic Basque Cake

Classic Basque Cake
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Course:
Dessert

Practical information

  • Prep time
    45 min
  • Cooking
    45 min
  • Difficulty
    Very easy
  • Pause
    1 h
  • Ready in
    2 h 30
  • Price
    Very friendly budget
  • Rate:
             

Categories

Budget:
friendly
Difficulty:
easy recipe
Recipe for:
big families
Preparation:
in advance
Category:
Cakes Sweets and Ice-creams
Tags:
cake

Recipe's Ingredients

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  • 2 egg
  • 3 eggs yolk
  • 1 lemon
  • 11 tablespoon butter, unsalted
  • ½ teaspoons salt
  • 2 eggs yolk
  • 1 egg
  • ½ vanilla bean (or vanilla extract)
  • 500 g flour
  • 300 g sugar
  • 250 ml milk

  • Recipe preparation steps

  • 1
    Grate the zest from the lemon.
  • 2
    Mix lemon zest, 1 egg, 1 egg yolk, 240 g sugar and salt in a bowl for the pastry.
  • 3
    Beat the mixture. Incorporate slowly 10 tb butter, then the 480 g flour.
  • 4
    Work the pastry with your hands. Roll it into a ball and rest in a fridge for at least one hour.
  • 5
    Combine the milk and the vanilla in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove the bean.
  • 6
    Beat 60 g sugar and 2 egg yolks. Stir in 60 g flour and the rum. Add slowly the hot milk. Bring the cream back into the saucepan and cook over very low heat. Stir the mixture. Remove from the heat when the cream begins to boil. Put the butter. Let the cream cool.
  • 7
    Preheat the oven at 200°C.
  • 8
    Butter a round cake pan. Roll out two third of the pastry. Line the bottom and sides. Fill with the cream. Cover with the remaining pastry.
  • 9
    Beat an egg. Brush it the top of the cake.
  • 10
    Bake in the oven for 45 minutes.
  • Ready !



 

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