Ingredients
- Ingredients
- 8 eggs
- 125 gr sugar
- 100 gr almonds (skinned and cut in small pieces)
- 50 gr flour
- Ingredients for the filling
- 10 egg yolks
- 125 gr sugar
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1.2 liter milk
- 1 vanilla pod (ground)
- 380 gr butter
Preparation
Step 1
*Separate egg yolks from egg whites.
*Beat the egg yolks with sugar and add the almonds.
*Mix the egg whites with the flour until it becomes a thick substance.
*Spoon the almond mixture in the egg white mixture and then pour everything in a buttered and floured cake pan.
*Bake the cake in a preheated oven on 190 degrees Celsius for about 45 minutes.
*Let the cake cool down and cut it into three layers.
*Beat the egg yolks with the sugar, add flour and mix well.
*Stir in the milk and add vanilla.
*Cook this mixture au bain marie, stirring all the time until the mixture has thickened. Remove from the fire and stir until it becomes cool again.
*Cream the butter with a mixer and add it to the filling.
*Spread the filling over the three layers of the cake and put the cake together again. Cover the complete outside of the cake with the remained filling.
*Decorate the cake with some almonds and let it cool down completely before serving.