Gâteau Magique (Magic Cake)
For a few years, a craze has been born around the “magic cake”. But the original recipe is a traditional dessert of the Southwest of France: the "millasson" or "millas". This old dessert was prepared with millet flour and then with corn flour.
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With only one dough, three layers are obtained in the same cake!
Ingredients (Serve 8)
- 500ml milk
- 150g white/caster sugar
- 6 eggs
- 125g melted butter
- 2 vanilla beans
- 110g flour
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 pinch of salt
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 150 ° C
- Cut the vanilla bean in half to extract the seeds
- Boil the milk with the vanilla.
- Let infuse 30 minutes to one hour.
- Whisk yolks, sugar and a tablespoon of water
- Add the butter, flour, salt to the yolks/sugar then the milk
- Beat the egg whites until soft peaks forms
- Incorporate the egg whites into the mixture, leaving lumps
- Place in a 24cm pan and smooth with a spatula
- Cook for 50 minutes
- Leave to rest between 4 and 24 hours.