Top Recipes For You: January 2014

Malakoff Cake With Whipped Cream

Ingredients	Quantity
Butter	170 gm
Almonds	170 gm
Sugar	170 gm
Egg yolks	2
Double cream	300 ml
Almonds	170 gm
Milk and Rum (mixed)	150 ml
Sponge Cake (made with sugar, eggs and flour without fat)	1

Methods to Prepare:

Chop almonds very fine and roast them by putting little sugar in a frying pan and tossing almonds in it until they are slightly brown
Cream butter and sugar and beat in almonds rum and egg yolks
Cut cake into 3 flat sections, soak each in a mixture of rum and milk
Put a layer of cake followed by a layer of filling into a cake tin of the same size
Repeat these layers and cover with a final layer of cake
Leave in a very cold place and leave for 12 hours
Turn out before serving and cover with whipped cream

Methods to Prepare:

Methods to Prepare:

Dissolve gelatine in the liquid. Add sugar and lime juice and allow to cool.
Dice pineapple
Whisk egg whites till stiff in a large bowl and add the liquid gradually and continue whisking till mixture starts to set.
Add two-thirds of the pineapple and whisk well together.
Pile at once into a glass dish and decorate with remaining pineapple.
Serve with custard sauce