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An airy cake based on shortcrust pastry with a light, fragrant cream. It is important to allow the dessert enough time to soak. The recipe is designed for 6-8 servings.
- Total cooking time
- not set
- Number of servings
- 6
- Recipe difficulty
- 4 / 5
Ingredients
for 6 servings
- butter 200 g
- sugar 150 g
- vanilla sugar 1 tsp
- eggs 3
- baking powder 10 g
- flour 450-500 g
- sugar 200 g
- flour 2 tbsp
- eggs 3
- butter 200 g
- lemon 2-3
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Instructions
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Prepare the lemon zest.
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Cream the butter with sugar and vanilla sugar.
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Add eggs to the mixture.
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Mix thoroughly.
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Add the prepared zest.
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Mix again.
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Pour in 100 ml of cold water.
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Mix the ingredients.
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Add the flour and baking powder. Knead into a dough of medium thickness.
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Divide the mixture into 4–5 equal parts. Spread each portion into a greased baking pan (a pan with a diameter of 26 cm was used), smoothing the surface.
Step 11 of 24
Make several punctures with a fork. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 15–20 minutes. Prepare 4–5 cake layers in this way.
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Begin preparing the cream. Squeeze 100 ml of juice from the lemons.
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Beat the eggs.
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Add sugar.
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Pour in lemon juice.
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Add 50 ml water.
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Stir in flour.
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Mix the contents.
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Heat the mixture until the first bubbles of boiling appear.
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Remove from heat and add butter.
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Stir and leave to cool.
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Cover the first cake layer with a layer of cream.
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Cover with the next layer, also spreading it with cream, and repeat the procedure. Leave the cake to soak for 8–10 hours.
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Decorate the finished dessert as desired. In this case, sugar paste flowers were used (details are available in the topics: Sugar paste from marshmallows, Calla lilies from sugar paste).