Cake recipe

[urbpan]

I am going to share this cake recipe partly because it's the most delicious cake I've ever eaten and partly because I want to close the document off my desktop. There's no baking but you have to leave it over night. Like all delicious things it contains unconscionable amounts of sweetened condensed milk, butter, egg yolks, an sugar:

1 can condensed milk
1/2 lb. butter
1 cup sugar
4 egg yolks
1 can nestle cream
1 pkg. marie biscuits
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla or rum

cover can of milk in water
boil covered for 2 hrs - do not open until ready to smother cake.
cream butter and sugar
add egg yolks
add vanilla or rum
fold in nestle cream
line a bowl with wax paper
dip biscuits in milk and layer with butter cream mix (appx 4 layers)
refrigerate overnight
invert onto platter and cover with caramel

Comments

[grum]

What is nestle cream? And can one use regular cream if one has easier access to that?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

http://www26.netrition.com/nestle_media_crema.html

Not sure how it would change with regular cream as a substitution.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

no, regular cream will not work.

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

I completely missed this. I also read bakebakebake and thought it was one of their's.

I don't think we can get Cream in a Can in Canada. I can get condensed milk in a can but I've never seen it sweetened. What is the fat percentage? It says table cream. I can get regular table cream in the dairy section.

How about a picture?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Here's a pic Alexis took of her dad about to dig into one. It's not a very attractive cake, but I don't care about that.

Click the link below the pic of the can to see the nutrition information. I can't imagine that it's not available in Canada--the first time I had this cake was in Toronto, IIRC--there's a whole bunch of wonderful Guyanese in-laws there.

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

I thought it might look something like that! I'm in the process of gathering recipes for the desert table at my daughter's wedding. I don't think this is going to make it, strickly based on looks. I know. I know.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

you can most definitely get all of the ingredients required for this cake in toronto. i had sweetened condensed milk plenty of times when i was a kid.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I am going to make this cake because I want to make the most delicious cake you have ever had.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

My opinion may be affected by the fact that I don't care about chocolate. Your mileage may vary.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I don't particularly care about chocolate either--high fives!

(... let me qualify that: I like chocolate bars, but not chocolate cake or ice cream, and of chocolate bars, I'm a wimp and only like the sort that come with milk--i.e., milk chocolate--and preferably caramel)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Same here. I don't mind chocolate covered things, like peppermint patties or raisinettes or whatever, but chocolate cake or ice cream just taste bitter and unpleasant to me.

[audacian.livejournal.com]

i'd eat it. yum.

[ssorca19.livejournal.com]

ok, so just for clarification... the condensed milk turns into caramel?

if so, do you boil it for 2 hours WHILE making the cake, then its cool to just sit around, or do you wait till the next day (as the cake needs to be refrigerated overnight) and THEN boil it for 2 hours, opening it while its still hot and pouring it on top of the cake?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Yeah the milk turns to caramel and you put it on the cake the next day. It's probably not safe to open the can for a while after you've been boiling it.

[ssorca19.livejournal.com]

good to know! assuming i can find the ingredients, I may try to make this! Thanks!

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

you don't want to pour it hot over the cake, that would be ... bad.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

substitute canned dulce de leche for labor intensive caramel!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

She means "less" labor intensive, because you don't have to boil the can.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

OH
MY
GOD

That is delicious. We made it, and we love it.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Hooray!
So glad you enjoyed it. :D