- 8
Ingredients
- 375 g butter
- 1 vanilla pod
- 180 g full cream condensed milk
- 5 whole eggs
- 12 egg yolks
- 200 g fine sugar
- 3 g baking powder
- 130 g cake flour
- 20 g butter milk powder (you can substitute this with milk powder)
- 2 tbsp mocha emulco
- 1 tbsp cocao powder
Preparation
Step 1
1. Preheat oven to 230 C using the normal top and bottom heat to heat up the entire oven. If your oven has grill function with temperature control, use that.
2. Line the bottom of a 8″ square pan.
3.Cream butter, vanilla seed (scraped from vanilla pod) and condensed milk together until light and fluffy. Set this aside.
4. Beat eggs, egg yolks, sugar and baking powder together until ribbon stage.
6. Sift flour and fold into the batter.
7. Divide batter into 2 portions. Add mocha emulco and cocoa powder into one portion. Mix well to combine.
8. Heat the empty cake pan in the oven for 2 mins.
9. Remove pan from oven and spread a portion of batter in the pan. (Measure your batter for every layer to ensure that your layers will be even) Level batter with a spatula and grill for 3 mins or until dark brown.
10. Remove from oven, press cake layer to remove excess air. Spread another portion of batter, level it and grill for 3 mins or until dark brown.
11. Repeat 9 and 10 (alternating 3 layers of plain batter with 3 layers of mocha layer) until the batter is finished.