Malakoff Cake Recipe
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Ingredients
Butter Cream:
1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon (40 g) cornstarch
2 cups plus 2 tablespoons (500 ml) milk
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons (70 g) granulated sugar
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (250 g) butter, softened
3 tablespoons (20 g) powdered sugar, sifted
3 tablespoons rum
32 ladyfingers
Syrup & Decoration:
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon warm water
Scant 1/4 cup (50 ml) Marsala
1 tablespoon rum
3 tablespoons red currant jelly
1 cup (100 g) toasted sliced almonds
14 cookies, half-coated with melted chocolate
Directions
To make butter cream, blend cornstarch with a little milk and granulated sugar in a medium bowl.
Boil remaining milk in a medium saucepan.
Stir hot milk into cornstarch mixture.
Return to heat and bring to a boil, stirring constantly until thickened.
Return mixture to bowl.
Cool, stirring frequently.
Cream butter and powdered sugar until light and fluffy.
Gradually beat butter mixture and rum into cooled cornstarch sauce.
Line the bottom of an 8-inch (20-cm) springform cake pan with ladyfingers.
To make syrup and decoration, dissolve sugar in water; add Marsala and rum.
Spoon half the syrup over ladyfingers.
Warm jelly; dot half over ladyfingers.
Spread with a layer of butter cream.
Repeat layers, ending with butter cream.
Reserve enough butter cream for sides of cake and decoration.
Refrigerate cake overnight.
Remove cake from pan.
Spread two-thirds of reserved butter cream over sides of cake; sprinkle with almonds.
Use remaining butter cream to pipe 14 rosettes onto cake.
Refrigerate cake.
Just before serving, add cookies.
Boil remaining milk in a medium saucepan.
Stir hot milk into cornstarch mixture.
Return to heat and bring to a boil, stirring constantly until thickened.
Return mixture to bowl.
Cool, stirring frequently.
Cream butter and powdered sugar until light and fluffy.
Gradually beat butter mixture and rum into cooled cornstarch sauce.
Line the bottom of an 8-inch (20-cm) springform cake pan with ladyfingers.
To make syrup and decoration, dissolve sugar in water; add Marsala and rum.
Spoon half the syrup over ladyfingers.
Warm jelly; dot half over ladyfingers.
Spread with a layer of butter cream.
Repeat layers, ending with butter cream.
Reserve enough butter cream for sides of cake and decoration.
Refrigerate cake overnight.
Remove cake from pan.
Spread two-thirds of reserved butter cream over sides of cake; sprinkle with almonds.
Use remaining butter cream to pipe 14 rosettes onto cake.
Refrigerate cake.
Just before serving, add cookies.
