Napoleon - cake for the winners with the name of a loser
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The fake or lazy Napoleon cake
Ingredients
- Milk 550 g
- Eggs 2 pcs.
- Sugar 130 g
- Butter 50 g
- Cornstarch 40 g (3.5 tbsp)
- Vanilla pod 1 pc.
- Oranges 1 pc.
- Palmiers cookies 300 g
- Cocoa powder 14 g (2 tbsp)
Instructions
First, make the cream. Pour the milk into a pot, put the vanilla pod in, and start heating. Meanwhile, beat the eggs with sugar. Then mix the cornstarch into the egg mass. (If you don't have cornstarch, wheat flour is also suitable.) Remove the vanilla pod from the milk, cut it in half, dig out the seeds and put them back into the hot milk. Pour half of the heated milk into the egg mass and mix. Then pour the egg mass back into the pot and set on low heat, stirring constantly. When the mass has thickened, remove the pot from the heat, add grated orange peel and butter into the cream. Set the cream aside to cool by covering it with a plastic wrap so that it touches the surface. (This is necessary so that the cream does not form a thick skin when it cools.)
When the cream has cooled, spread the palmiers in a single layer in a cake form with removable edges or in another container for desserts. Spread the cream on it, then put another cookie layer and cream again. Repeat until the cake is as high as you want. Finish the cake with a layer of cream. Put the cake in the refrigerator for at least a couple of hours. Decorate by sifting with either crushed palmiers or cocoa.