When you prepare a cake for someone you love, your gift is not only a homemade dessert, tasty and with selected ingredients, your gift is your time and the love you put into preparing it too.
Ingredients:
Custard:
2 eggs (red yolk if available)
500 g whole milk
40 g cake flour (of which about 1/4 corn starch, if available)
150 g sugar
lemon zest (or vanilla berry, if you prefer)
2-3 tbs of hazelnut cream (made of 100% hazelnut)
Sponge Cake:
5-6 eggs (red yolk if available)
sugar: 2/3 of eggs weight
cake flour: 2/3 of eggs weight (of which nearly 1/3 of potato flour, if available)
lemon zest (or vanilla berry, if you prefer)
whipped cream: about 400 ml is enough for Chantilly cream & final decoration
hazelnut and dark chocolate for final decoration (or whatever your creativity pushes)
note: if you have only cake flour, don’t worry! your cake will be however very good!
If you will try this dessert (I hope so, this is the aim of sharing all my recipes) let me know what do you think about!