Shauna's Boston Cream Cake

Name: Shauna's Boston Cream Cake
Prep time: 2 h 20 min
Cook time: 2 h 20 min
Total time: 2 h 20 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 3 Tbsps butter, softened; 2 Tbsps cake flour; 237 milliliters confectioners sugar, sifted; 4 egg yolks; 59 milliliters all-purpose flour; 355 milliliters milk; 0 teaspoons salt; 57 grams semisweet chocolate; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract; 2 Tbsps hot water, or as needed (optional); 79 milliliters white sugar

Shauna's Boston Cream Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. One serving contains 248 calories, 4g of protein, and 11g of fat. This recipe serves 8. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 20 minutes. If you have baking powder, sugar, salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch cake pan.

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Cake Form

Oven

Mix both amounts of cake flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Beat 3 egg yolks in a separate bowl with an electric mixer until thickened and lemon-colored, about 5 minutes.

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Baking Powder

Cake Flour

Egg Yolk

Lemon

Salt

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Beat 2/3 cup white sugar, 3 1/2 tablespoons butter, and 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract in a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy; beat in egg yolks. Beat flour mixture in several additions, alternating with 6 tablespoons milk and ending with flour mixture, into creamed butter-sugar mixture on low until incorporated.

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Vanilla Extract

Sugar

Egg Yolk

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Milk

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Pour batter into the prepared cake pan.

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Frying Pan

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

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Toothpicks

Wire Rack

Oven

Frying Pan

Pour 1 1/2 cups milk into a saucepan; bring to a boil.

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Milk

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Sauce Pan

Remove from heat.

Whisk 4 egg yolks and 1/3 cup white sugar in a bowl until well combined; whisk in all-purpose flour.

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All Purpose Flour

Granulated Sugar

Egg Yolk

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Whisk

Bowl

Pour 2 tablespoons of hot milk into egg mixture, whisking constantly. Slowly whisk in remaining hot milk. Return saucepan to stove and bring almost to a boil, stirring constantly, until thickened.

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Milk

Egg

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Whisk

Sauce Pan

Stove

Pour custard into a heat-proof bowl; stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Refrigerate until chilled.

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Vanilla Extract

Custard

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Bowl

Melt 3 tablespoons butter and chocolate in the top of a double boiler over simmering water, stirring frequently and scraping down the sides with a rubber spatula to avoid scorching.

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Chocolate