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Danube River Layer Cake

Servings 0

Ingredients

Cream Layer

  • 1/4 c custard powder
  • 50 ml milk
  • 350 ml milk
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 2 sticks butter 250 g

Cake

  • 350 g flour
  • 1 envelope vanilla sugar
  • 3 tsp BP
  • A pinch of salt
  • 1 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 3 eggs
  • 175 g sugar
  • 175 ml peanut oil
  • 175 ml milk

Cherry Layer

  • 1 can cherry pie filling

Chocolate Glaze

  • 2 bars Cadbury dark chocolate @ 100g each
  • 2-3 tbsp Nutella
  • 1 tbsp peanut oil

Instructions

Cake

  • Mix flour, BP, salt, vanilla sugar in a bowl
  • Cream sugar and eggs until creamy and pale, then stir in oil.
  • Add in dry ingredients a little at a time, alternating with milk.
  • Pour and spread half of the batter onto baking pan
  • Add cocoa powder to the remaining batter, mix well, the spread onto pan
  • Spoon cherry pie filling on top chocolate batter
  • Bake on preheated 350 F until knife inserted comes out clean (with the cherry filling it may be tricky to check, you can poke your knife on sides instead center of cake)

Cream

  • Mix custard powder with milk, set to side
  • Bring milk and sugar to simmer, then stir in custard mixture, stir til thickened and creamy
  • Take off from heat, cover with cling wrap in the custard, and let it cool completely to room temperature
  • Cream butter then mix in custard a little at a time, until creamy
  • Spread cream on the cake, chill an hour or two, or overnight

Glaze

  • Over double boiler, melt Nutella along with oil, and chocolate, pour glaze over cake. Chill a couple of hours or overnight before serving
  • Take out from the fridge, let stand at least 30mins or so, slice and enjoy

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