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Basque cake with pastry cream: photo of the dish
Illustrative photo: Arnaud 25 — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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Basque cake with pastry cream

Thick shortbread-style crust filled with rum-scented pastry cream.

  • 1 h 25
  • 8 servings
  • Medium
  • Moderate
  • Basque

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Ingredients

Ingredients

Spices & seasoning

Nutrition facts

531 kcal per serving

Protein
10.7 g
Carbohydrates
58.6 g
of which sugars
28.5 g
Fat
27 g
Fiber
2 g

Ecomely’s estimate, calculated from the ingredients with the ANSES Ciqual food composition table, excluding sides and seasoning added to taste.

Instructions

  1. Make a pastry cream with the milk, 1 egg, 80 g of sugar, the cornstarch, the vanilla and the rum; let cool.
  2. Mix the butter, the remaining sugar, 2 eggs, the flour, baking powder and almond flour.
  3. Press two thirds of the dough into a pan, add the cream, and cover with the rest of the dough.
  4. Brush with egg wash and bake for 45 min at 170 °C.

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