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4 free range eggs (roomtemp.)
100g caster sugar
dash of salt
90g flour, sieved
10g cornstarch, sieved
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1/2 L double cream+ 4 tbspoons sugar
fresh fruit of your choice
chocolate sprinkles or sliced almonds
Finally back in Holland there is only one thing that we want to bake: an old-fashioned Dutch Cream Cake. We use the recipe for kapsel (a super light batter) of the famous Amsterdam pastry chef Cees Holtkamp. Watch Cees Holtkamp himself make this cake. Our cake is assembled to our liking, the kids chose the chocolate sprinkles.
With a load of fresh summer fruit in it and on it you can't resist the cake. The whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles make it a calorie bomb. But you're worth it and it is after all the closing of our European baking tour!
We had a wonderful time making all the different bakes from all 27 European Uninon countries but for the coming weeks do not expect very much cake baking at snazzie ;)
How to make a Dutch Cream Cake
Break the eggs in a fireproof bowl on a pan boiling water.
Add sugar, lemon zest and salt and beat until combined.
Keep mixing 10 minutes until the egg mixture is airy and frothy.
Fold the flour and cornstarch together into the egg mixture.
Fold in careful so the air stays in the batter.
Put wax paper on the bottom, grease the tin.
Pour the batter into the tin.
Preheat the oven to 180°C
Bake the cake in 25 minutes light brown and springy.
In the mean time wash and slice the fruit.
Check if the cake is cooked sticking in a skewer.
Slice the cake horizontally in three layers, use a big knife.
We use nectarine; pear; pineapple and grapes as fruit filling. To late we hear from Cees that you should not use pineapple or kiwi fruit as a filling because it emits too much moisture in the cream. To decorate it's fine.
Beat the cream stiff with sugar and klopfix.
Spread a generous layer cream on the cake.
Cover the cream with sliced fruit.
Repeat this and spread cream onto the top and around the side too.
Pipe cream rosettes on top and press chocolate sprinkles on the side.
Geniet ervan!