How to bake you a real Princess Cake at home in your own kitchen. If you want really great flavor to the cake, try baking trays and cook the custard yourself. The trick with brushing the marzipan with melted butter is the marzipan to not to “sweat” the cream.
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- Cake: Preheat oven to 175 °. Grease the cake tin and line vith breadcrums. Beat eggs and sugar until white and fluffy. Mix together the potato flour, wheat flour and baking powder.
- Stir the mixture into a batter. Pour batter into pan and bake in the lower part of the oven for about 40 minutes. Let cool and overturn on a plate. Add over a towel until it has cooled completely.
- Custard: Bring milk and vanilla to a boil. Whisk together egg yolks lightly, powdered sugar and cornstarch and fold into the warm vanilla milk.
- Bring to a boil, stirring, reduce heat and simmer for a minute on low heat. Add in the butter, mix and pass the cream through a fine sieve. Allow to cool.
- Whip the cream until stiff.
- Glass cream: Mix together 1 dl vanilla cream with 2 dl whipped cream.
- Princesstårta: Share cake bottom in three parts. Use the bottom portion of the cake, but put it upside down on a cake stand.
- Pipe vanilla cream on the bottom, add another cake base and spread glass cream over. Put on the last cake bottom and spread on cream like a dome. Also let the cream fall down on the edge and spread it around.
- Brush the marzipan lid with melted butter and place it on the cake with the butter down. Cut the marzipan smooth.
- Decorate the cake with decorations and rose. Sprinkle powdered sugar through strainer. Set the cake in the refrigerator for a few hours before serving. The cake can be stored in refrigerator for up to 12 hours.
An oblong cake, cut in portions, are called Princesses pastries. A cake with pink marzipan and jam filling is called Opera Cake. If the marzipan on top is yellow, the cake is a Carl Gustav Cake.
There are also special editions of Princesses cake. To the royal wedding in June 2015, when prince Carl Philip got married to princess Sofia, there were both cakes and pastries to buy in royal blue marzipan witht a golden crown.
In October we celebrate the struggle against breast cancer and then special editions of pink pastries and Princesses cake with a pink ribbon are sold.
IKEA sells opera pasties with orange marzipan for Halloween.
