TIRAMISU CREAM CAKE

Tiramisu Cream Cake

Ingredients:

For the cake dough:

• 2 eggs
• 1/3 cup caster sugar or 70 g
• ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
• ½ cup plain flour or 70 g, sifted

For the cream:

• 2/3 cup liquid cream or 165 ml
• 1 tin Condensed Milk or 397 g
• 2½ cups mascarpone cheese or 500 g
• 2 tablespoons gelatine powder, dissolved in 5 tablespoons of hot water
• 3 tablespoons NESCAFÉ Gold, dissolved in ¾ cup or 185 ml of hot water
• 1½ tablespoons cocoa powder

Preparation:

1. Whisk the eggs and caster sugar for 6-8 minutes or until it thickens, then mix in the vanilla essence.
2. Sift the flour over the egg mixture in three stages. Use a metal spoon to gently fold the mixture together.
3. Pour the mixture into a 22cm greased and floured round tin. Bake in a 190°C preheated oven for 20 minutes or until when inserting a skewer in the center it comes out clean. Then move out onto a wire rack to cool.
4. In a bowl, combine fresh liquid cream, Condensed Milk and mascarpone cheese. Mix until the mixture is smooth and almost firm then pour over the dissolved gelatin and stir constantly until well combined.
5. Cut and throw away 1 cm from the edges of the cake and then slice it into 2 layers. Place one layer of cake over the bottom of 22cm cake tin and spoon ½ quantity of the melted NESCAFÉ Gold . Pour over evenly ½ of the cream mixture. Repeat the layering process ending with cream mixture.
6. Chill for 3 hours or until the cake is firm, after that dust with cocoa powder and remove from tin. Slice and serve.