Peanut Cake With Vanilla

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Peanut Cake With Vanilla

I simply adore desserts that contain peanut taste. Like peanut butter cookies, or cakes, but in this cake recipe I will use grinded and baked peanuts. They are great and delicious ingredients for cakes. Especially if the peanuts are baked for about 15 min in the oven, or in a pan on low heat, and then grinded. It gives the cake great, tasty flavor. Also the peanuts should be unsalted. I made this cake for my last birthday and it was a crowd pleaser. A bonus point for this recipe is that there’s no baking for cake batter and filling. Indulge yourself with this lovely peanut cake. 

Ingredients For Cake Batter:

·         5 vanilla instant pudding mix powder 200g /1 cup/

·         Milk 1 ½ liter /6.3 cups/

·         10 tablespoons white sugar

·         Butter, softened 450g /2 cups/

First Cake Filling:

·         Ground biscuit 300g /10.5 oz/

·         Grated chocolate 50g /1.7 oz/

·         Powdered sugar 160g /5.6 oz/

Second Cake Filling:

·         Coconut powder 300g /10.5 oz/

·         Powdered sugar 160g /5.6 oz/

Third Cake Filling:

·         Unsalted peanuts 300g /10.5 oz/

·         Powdered sugar 160g /5.6 oz/

·         Cold heavy whipped cream 250ml /1 cup/

Directions:

1.    Cake batter is not baked. In deep dish cook together milk, all vanilla instant powder and add 10 tbsp of sugar. Cook until milk boils; stir constantly until the mass becomes smooth and compact.

2.    When vanilla pudding is cooled, add softened butter. Mix the mass well using electric mixer. Divide into 3 separate deep bowls. We will mix vanilla pudding with 3 different cakes filling and create 3 layers.

3.    In a first vanilla pudding bowl add grounded biscuit, grated chocolate and sugar powder. Mix everything good with electric mixer, and make a first bottom layer. Form with your hands, or spoon, layer 1,5 cm high.

4.    In the second bowl add coconut powder and sugar powder. Mix all and form the second layer on top of the first one. Form with your hands 1,5 cm high layer.

5.    For the last layer bake the peanuts in the oven. Bake only for 15 min until they get golden, brown color. Or if you wish bake them in a pan on low heat. Than take them out and leave to cool. Grind baked peanuts.

6.    In a third bowl add grinded peanuts and sugar powder. Mix it well and form last cake layer on top.

7.    For frosting mix in a bowl cold heavy cream until it gets tick. Spread it and decorate on top of a cake.   

  

Calories: 610

Preparation time: 1 hour   |   Cook time: 15 min   |   Serves: 24

Did You Know? That…in the Middle Ages sugar was extremely valuable and was worth 9 times more than milk 

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Classic Cream Puffs

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Classic Cream Puffs

Cream puffs in the Balkans are called “Princess Donuts” and are extremely popular cookies. They are the ultimate comfort dessert. Warm, cozy so lovely and beautiful looking, dusted with sugar to have a sharper taste are a famous French pastry. This is an excellent classic recipe for puff pastry with creamy and fluffy homemade vanilla filling.

Note: while preparing dough for puffs if you add too much flour, dough can get too stiff and puffs will not rise during baking. The same will happen if dough is more liquid than solid. Important is that density of the dough should be adequate, smooth and thick.

Homemade cream puffs will wow your guests with its amazing looks and even better taste. The recipe is not that complicated so you only have to follow it exactly, and have fun making it.

Ingredients:

• 6 eggs
• Butter, softened 120g / ½ cup/
• All-purpose flour, sifted 150g /1 cup/
• Water 250ml /1 cup/
• 1 teaspoon baking soda

For Filling:

• Milk 500ml /2 cups/
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 1 egg
• All-purpose flour 80g / ¾ cup/
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• Butter, softened 120g / ½ cup/
• Powdered sugar for dusting

Directions:

1.    Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C /356 F/. Grease and flour or line with parchment paper a large baking sheet.

2.    In a pot pour water and bring to a boil. Add butter and cook for 3 min until completely melted. Quickly stir in flour and cook for 1 min until soft dough ball forms. Remove from heat and let dough to rest for 7 min.

3.    Add 6 eggs, one at a time and stir well with spoon. Add baking soda. Dough should be sticky and thick. Dough is for 30 puff balls.

4.    Drop about ¼ cup of dough by spoonfull on prepared baking sheet. There should be about 12 dough balls. Bake in the oven for 25-30 min until puffs are golden, brown. When done set aside to cool.

5.    To prepare filling in a small bowl whisk egg and sugar. Pour milk in a saucepan and cook over medium heat. Stir in egg mixture, flour and vanilla. Stir and cook until milk boils and mixture is thick and smooth. Leave aside to chill.

6.    When mixture is chilled, add butter and beat with an electric mixer.

7.    When puffs are cooled, cut tops of each puff and fill with cream mixture. Dust with powdered sugar.

Calories: 210

Preparation time: 35 min  | Cook time: 1 hour  |  Serves: 30

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