Cakespy: An Educaketion

Name: Cakespy: An Educaketion
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 312 grams almond paste or fondant to cover; 28 grams amaretto (optional); 2 teaspoons baking powder; 237 milliliters butter; 2 eggs; 59 milliliters milk, approximately; 59 milliliters apricot jam or your choice of preserves; 8 servings Red food coloring; 177 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoon Madagascar vanilla; 59 milliliters vanilla buttercream frosting (optional); 355 milliliters white flour

You can never have too many side dish recipes, so give Cakespy: An Educaketion a try. One portion of this dish contains roughly 8g of protein, 37g of fat, and a total of 633 calories. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 8. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes. Head to the store and pick up almond paste, sugar, vanilla buttercream frosting, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.

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Oven

Line a shallow square cake tin (9x9 inches works well) with parchment paper.

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Baking Paper

Cake Form

Cream the butter, vanilla and sugar until light and fluffy.

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Vanilla

Butter

Cream

Sugar

Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

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Egg

Sift the flour, baking powder and fold into the creamed mixture.

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Baking Powder

All Purpose Flour

Add sufficient milk to give the dough a soft consistency, kind of like that of a drop cookie.

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Dough

Milk

Separate the dough into two equal parts. In a bowl, mix half of the dough with 1 ounce amaretto. If you don't like amaretto, this step is optional.

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Amaretto Liqueur

Dough

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Bowl

Place the dough into one half of your prepared cake pan. It should be stiff enough that it won't drip into the other half.

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Dough

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Cake Form

Add a strip of parchment paper to the middle of the pan, along the edge of where your white-colored dough ends at the halfway point. This will help keep the dough colors divided while you bake.

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Dough

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Baking Paper

Oven

Frying Pan

Add a few drops of red food coloring to the remaining mixture to turn it a pink color, then spoon this into the other half of the prepared pan.

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Red Food Color

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Frying Pan

Bake for 30-35 minutes or until the cake has risen and is lightly brown on the edges and has a dull finish on top.

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Oven

Turn out on a wire rack and let cool fully.

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Wire Rack

Trim the edges of the cake so that both pieces are of uniform size; then cut each half in two so that you have four equally sized strips.

Gently heat the apricot jam in a small pan and stick the stripes of cake together, one plain piece next to one colored one, and then vice versa to make a checkerboard effect.

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Apricot Jam

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Frying Pan

Brush the top of the assembled cake with apricot jam.

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Apricot Jam

Roll out the almond paste into a rectangle the length of the cake and wide enough to cover both sides.

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Almond Paste

Roll

Invert the cake on to the almond paste, then brush the remaining three sides with apricot jam. If you want an extra dose of decadence, I found that adding a thin layer of buttercream frosting in addition to the apricot jam was quite a nice addition.

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Almond Paste

Apricot Jam

Frosting