The first recipe for the cake filling. It is a wonderful world-wide classic. My family has made this kind of cake filling for decades and it makes the perfect base for this Kit-kat & chocolate covered Pigs-in-Mud cake.
** Truth: This basic cake is actually not exclusively Dutch. The Italians love this cake and eat it all the time, but they call this type of cake ‘Pan di Spagna’ (Spanish bread). See how international this recipe is.
The second recipe teaches you how to transform this basic cake filling and make it into a fabulous birthday cake. It shows you how to make the chocolate cover and the fondant pigs.
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Cake Filling Recipe
Ingredients
5 eggs
125 gr sugar (125 g or lil’ bit over 1/2 cup)
125 gr cake flour *125 gr or just under 1.5 cup)
A note on Cake Flour
Cake flour is an American flour, It’s a finely milled flour with very low protein (usually 8-10% protein levels) and is typically used for cakes. Cake flour is also bleached. This causes the flour molecules to repel liquid, bind fats more efficiently and stabilize the gas bubbles produced by the raising agents. Theses factors helps a cake to rises more and to have a fluffy, tender texture. This is particularly true for cakes that have a high proportion of sugar in the recipe. Regular cake flour has no raising agents (i.e. not self-raising), although there are some brands that have created “self-raising” cake flour.
So, short and sweet: you can just use plain flour instead of cake flour in Australia, because bleached flour is banned in Australia and Europe (because bleaching is not healthy). Or, if you want to go the extra mile: I have heard that you can reduce the protein content of your regular flour by taking 2 tablespoons of flour out of each cup of plain flour and replacing them with 2 tablespoons of cornflour.
Kit kat Cake Preparation
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. (How many degrees F is 200 Celsius ? 390 F)
Prep a cake form by lining it with butter and dust it with some flour. (20 cm or almost 8”)
Tip: ensure your cake-making tools like your scale and mixing bowl are super clean and non-greasy. Otherwise your egg mixture will never properly rise, no matter how long you mix it!
Step-by-step Instructions for Cake Filling
Mix the sugar and the eggs till your mixture is airy and white. This will take some time.
Sift the flour and gently fold it into your egg mixture.
Pour the mixture into your prepared cake tin and bake the cake filling for about 30 min. It’s ready when the top of the cake is spongy.
Sprinkle some sugar onto the cake and let it cool down on a tea towel.
Preparation for Pigs in Mud Kit Kat Chocolate Cake.
