Bavarian Cream Cake Recipes

Steps:

• In a small bowl, stir together the gelatin and cold water. Set aside to soften. In a medium bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, sugar, and salt until smooth.
• In a medium saucepan, bring the milk to a boil. Pour the hot milk in a steady stream into the yolk mixture, whisking constantly. Return the mixture to the saucepan and cook and stir over medium heat until the mixture coats the back of a spoon. Remove from heat and pour the custard through a strainer.
• Stir in the softened gelatin and vanilla and stir to melt the gelatin. Allow to cool.
• When the mixture has cooled almost to room temperature, whip the heavy cream to medium stiffness and fold it into the custard. Immediately transfer the Bavarian cream to parfait glasses, molds, or on prepared cake layers, as it will firm up quickly as the gelatin sets. Refrigerate at least one hour before serving.

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• Mix together cream cheese and dry pudding mix.
• Slow beat in milk.
• Fold in Cool Whip.

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• Put the split vanilla bean in cream and slowly bring to a boil. Turn off heat and let sit for 1 hour.
• Remove bean and scrape out seeds, add them to the cream and discard the pod. Sprinkle the gelatin into the milk and set aside.
• Whisk the sugar and egg yolks together. Warm the cream mixture back up and slowly whisk into eggs. Place mixture over simmering water and stir until it is thick enough to coat the back of a wooded spoon. Remove from heat and add milk and gelatin mixture.
• Place bowl in ice bath and stir until at room temperature.
• Fold in whipped cream and pour mixture into 6 (6-ounce) ramekins. Place in refrigerator for 4 to 5 hours or until mixture is set. Remove from molds and garnish with strawberries.

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• Finishing:
• You will need 1 10-inch springform pan.
• For the syrup, combine the sugar and water, bring to a boil and cool. Stir in the liqueur.
• For the chocolate filling, bring the cream to a boil. Remove from heat, add the chocolate, and allow to stand 2 minutes. Whisk in the butter until smooth and cool.
• To make the Bavarian, combine the raspberries and sugar in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and simmer 10 minutes. Use a food mill or a fine sieve to puree and strain away seeds. Cool. Combine the liqueur and gelatin in a small, heatproof bowl and soak 5 minutes. Place the bowl over simmering water to make liquid again, then whisk into cool puree. Whip cream and fold it in.
• Slice the genoise into two layers and place one in the bottom of a 10-inch springform pan. Moisten with half the syrup. Whip the cooled chocolate filling to lighten and spread half over cake layer; pour on half the Bavarian. Repeat with remaining cake layer, syrup, chocolate filling, and Bavarian. Chill to set.
• To unmold, run a small knife between dessert and mold and lift off side of pan. Whip the cream and spread over sides of dessert. Press some of the chocolate shavings into cream. Arrange raspberries on top in two concentric circles around the top rim, then sprinkle center with shavings and confectioners' sugar.
• One 9 by 2-inch round layer pan, or a 9-inch springform pan, buttered and the bottom lined with a disk of parchment or wax paper Set a rack at the middle level of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees. Sift together the cake flour, cornstarch, and cocoa through a fine-meshed strainer over a piece of waxed paper to break up any lumps in the cocoa. Set sifted ingredients aside with the strainer. Whisk together the eggs yolks, sugar, and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer. Place the bowl over a pan of simmering water and continue whisking gently until the mixture is lukewarm, about 100 degrees. This should take only a minute or two. Whip with the electric mixer on high speed until the mixture is cooled and increased in volume, about 3 to 4 minutes. Remove bowl from mixer and sift in dry ingredients, in three additions gently folding each third in with a rubber spatula. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and spread the top even with a spatula. Bake the layer about 30 minutes until it is well risen and the center is firm to the touch. If necessary, loosen the layer from the side of the pan with a small knife or spatula and invert the cake onto a rack. Place another rack on the cake and invert again. Remove the top rack, so that the layer cools right side up, still on the paper. Yield: 1 round layer, 9 inches in diameter by 2 inches deep

Steps:

• In a large bowl of an electric mixer, let egg white warm to room temperature about 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Sift flour with sugar, baking powder and salt into another bowl. Make a well in the center.
• Add in order: oil, egg yolks, 1/2 cup water, vanilla and coconut extract. Beat with a spoon until smooth.
• In the large bowl of an electric mixer, at high speed, beat egg whites with cream of tartar until stiff peaks form when beater is lifted.
• With a wire whisk or rubber scraper, using an over and motion, gently fold egg yolks/flour batter mixture into egg white mixture until just blended.
• Pour into two 8-inch round cake pans which have been greased and floured. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until top springs back when lightly touched. You can split each of these layers to make 4 layers, if desired.
• Ice with the following recipe.
• Champagne Icing.
• Mix all ingredients together; beat with mixer until thickened. Split cake and spread between layers and all over cake. Grate pink, chocolate or tinted coconut over top of cake. Refrigerate.
• Bavarian Cream - Optional.
• The day before making cake, or early in the day, in a double boiler combine gelatin, salt, 2 tablespoons sugar. Stir in egg yolks. Then slowly add milk. Cook over boiling water, stirring until moisture coats the spoon. Remove at once.
• Refrigerate until slightly thicker than unbeaten egg whites. Beat egg whites until they form moist peaks when the beater is raised. Gradually add 1/4 cup of the sugar, beating until stiff. Fold into yolk mixture along with whipped cream, vanilla. Leave in bowl until ready to use.

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• Pour the water into a small bowl and sprinkle the gelatin over it. Let stand until ready for use.
• Pour the milk into a small saucepan and whisk in the coffee granules. Place the saucepan over medium-high heat and bring the milk just to the boil, whisking to dissolve the coffee.
• Put the egg yolks into a bowl and whisk just to blend them. Add the sugar and continue to whisk.
• Gradually whisk the hot milk into the egg yolks. Note: when you whisk in the hot milk, be sure to do it very slowly, or you will have scrambled eggs. Pour the mixture back into the saucepan and place over medium low heat.
• Cook, stirring constantly and scraping the bottom of the pan, until mixture thickens and reaches 165°-170°F on an instant-read thermometer. If you don't have a thermometer, dip a metal spoon in the sauce and run your finger down the middle of the the back of the spoon. It should leave a clear trail.
• Remove from heat and whisk in the gelatin until it is completely dissolved.
• Pour the mixture into a large bowl and allow to cool to room temperature.
• Place the bowl in the refrigerator and stir about every 5 minutes. After 20 minutes remove the mixture.
• Whip the cream until soft peaks form. Gently fold the cream into the custard.
• Lightly oil a 4-5 cup mold. Pour the custard into the mold and refrigerate, until set, at least every 2 hours.

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• Combine sugar, flour, cornstarch and salt. Gradually stir in milk.
• On med-high heat (turning down to med, if necessary), cook and stir until mixture thickens and boils.
• Cook and stir 2-3 minute.
• Stir a little of the hot mixture into egg yolk.
• Stir egg mixture into the rest of the hot mixture and bring it just to boiling.
• STIRRING CONSTANTLY.
• Add vanilla.
• cover entire surface with plastic wrap or waxed paper.
• Cool.
• beat smooth.
• Fold in whipped cream.

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• Glaze the orange slices:.
• Bring the sugar and water to a boil in a large pot.
• Add orange slices, lower the heat and simmer for 2.5 hours.
• Remove from heat.
• Let cool in syrup overnight.
• Make the Cake:.
• Preheat overn to 350 degrees.
• Butter and flour a 10-inch springform pan.
• Beat the eggs and sugar with an electric mixer for 10 minutes, until very thick and pale.
• Gradually fold in the flour.
• Fold 1/4 of the batter into the melted butter, then fold the butter mixture into the remaining batter.
• Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the center of the oven for about 35 minutes, until a cake tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Cool on a wire rack.
• Run a knife around teh edge of the pan to release the cake.
• Remove the sides and the bottom of the pan.
• Trim any crips edges and slice the cake horzontally into 3 thin layers.
• Orange Bavarian Cream:.
• In a medium saucepan, heat the milk to simmering.
• In a bowl, beat the yolks with 9 tablespoons of the sugar until well combined.
• Gradually beat in the hot milk.
• Stir in the softened gelatin.
• Retrun the mixture to the saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden sppon for about 10 minutes, until the mixture thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon, (Do not let boil or the eggs will curdle.).
• Stir in the vanilla and Cointreau.
• Place the saucepan over a bowl of rice and stir until the mixture of mounds.
• In a bowl, softly whip the cream with the remaining tbsp of sugar.
• Carefully fold it into the chillled Bavarian mixture.
• Assemble:.
• Line a 10" springform pan with plastic wrap, leaving a 5" overhang all around.
• Drain the orange slices and reserve the syrup.
• Choose the largest slices and place them in a decorative pattern on the bottom and sides of the pan.
• Finely chop the remaining oranges and fold into the Bavarian Cream.
• Spoon 1/3 of the Bavarian Cream over the oranges.
• Place 1 layer of the cake over the cream and brush with some of the reserved syrup.
• Repeat twice wtih the remaining cream and layers.
• Cover with plastic wrap.
• Place a 9" cake pan on top of the cake and put a 2 lb. weight in the center of the pan.
• Refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
• To Serve:.
• Remove the weighted pan and plastic wrap.
• Invert the cake onto a serving platter.
• Remove the sides and bottom of the pan and peel off the plastic wrap.
• Slice with a very sharp knife.