So…. like a super long time ago, I created the Blog Party “New Recipe Sunday” A blog party where you all can share a new recipe you have tried out.  Today is RELAUNCH DAY! And to celebrate I am sharing with you a cake recipe that I tried out last week. As many of you know I am a volunteer at the Ronald McDonald House Berlin-Wedding. We are in the process of putting together a Cookbook of Recipes that the Families share with us. Last Tuesday I baked for the very first time in my life a Napoleon Torte!

 

I found my recipes online at gutekueche.de and chefkoch.de

Here are my translated versions

 

Napoleon Torte

Ingredients for the the cake batter

250 g cold Butter

500 g flour

1 egg

200 ml cold water

1 teaspoon baking powder

a pinch of salt

 

Ingredients for the Filling

1 can of sweetened condensed milk

300 g butter, softened

200 ml milk

2 eggs

1 Tablespoon starch

20 g vanilla sugar

 

• sift flour into bowl and add a pinch of salt and the baking powder.  With a pastry blender, cut the cold butter into the flour and knead with a machine or your hands till there are no more large clumps.
• add the egg to the cold water, but do not mix
• add the egg/water to the flour mixture and knead with a machine or by hand till it is a smooth dough. Divide into 8 pieces and put in the fridge for 3 hours.
• pre heat oven to 210°C and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• roll out each piece of dough to a 24 cm in diameter circle and 3mm thick. Save the left over pieces of dough.
• place on dough disk on the baking sheet… poke some holes in it with a fork(i forgot that part!) and back for about 10 minutes till golden brown. Repeat this for all 8 pieces.
• While the disks are cooling, you can prepare the creme. Take 6 Tablespoons of milk and stir in the starch. Then add the eggs and stir.
• Heat the rest of the milk and carefully add the warmed milk to the egg mixture. Constantly stir.
• Pour the milk/egg mixture into the pot and bring slowly to a boil. After about 2-3 minutes if should be a stiff cream. Keep stirring as not to get clumps.
• Pour the cream in a bowl and cover with plastic foil-let cool completely.
• Cream the  butter till very creamy, almost foamy and then slowly add the condense milk. After the condense milk is throughly mixed, slowly, slowly add the cooled creme and stir well
• Crumble one of the cake disks and save for later
• place one disk on the cake plate and spread some cream on it. Continue this process till the last one(that one gets cream later). Also spread some cream on the sides.  Let the cake then rest for 60 minutes
• When the 60 minutes are over, cover the cake with a piece of parchment paper and put a plate on top. Then set a water filled pot on top and let the whole thing stand and rest for 3 hours.
• Now you can spread the rest of the cream on the cake and cover the entire cake with the crumbs.

 

It sounds a lot harder than it is….. you just need time and patience!

 

Enjoy and welcome back to New Recipe Sunday.