Basque Cake

Basque Cake

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Let's go to the French Basque country, where Biarritz is, to taste this wonderful cake. A shortbread pastry filled with vanilla custard had someone named it the "Happy Cake", because everyone is...

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Ingredients

  • For the pastry
  • 2.5 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup softened butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • For the pastry cream
  • 2 cups milk
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 4 egg yolks
  • ⅔ cup sugar
  • ⅓ cup flour
  • To gold the cake
  • 1 egg yolk

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