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Bee Sting Cake

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Prep

1hr

Bake

50 mins

Serves

8 to 10

Difficulty

Medium

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Suitable for any occasion, its golden-brown exterior and smooth interior are certain to delight your taste buds, leaving you longing for another bite.

made using

Pure Cane Caster Sugar

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Bee Sting Cake

Step 1

Prepare the filling.

Step 2

In a saucepan, combine the milk and vanilla on a medium heat and bring to a simmer for 6- 8 minutes. Separate your egg yolks and whisk until pale and smooth. Add in your sieved cornstarch and combine.

Step 3

Whilst whisking slowly start to add in your hot milk until all combined. Sieve the mixture back into the saucepan.

Step 4

On a medium heat whisk your mixture until thickened for 8 – 10 mins. Remove your saucepan from the heat and add your butter, combining into the mix and the chill your filling in the fridge for 3-4 hours.

Step 5

Preheat the oven to 180°C, fan 160°C, gas 4 and grease your Grease and line the base and sides of a 20cm springform tin. Beat together all of the almond sponge ingredients until combine and add to your tin.

Step 6

Bake your cake for 50 mins and remove when almost baked – you will get a partially clean skewer to the centre.

Step 7

To make your topping put your butter, sugar, golden syrup and cream in a small pan with a pinch of salt and heat gently until it turns pale.

Step 8

Add your flaked almonds to the topping mix and add to the top of your cooked cake returning to the oven to brown for 8-10 minutes.

Step 9

Once cooled slice the cake in half and fill with the filling, slice and enjoy!

Ingredients – 9 items

Serving

1

For the almond sponge

Butter

Unsalted butter, softened

150 g
Pure Cane Caster Sugar

Tate & Lyle Fairtrade Caster Sugar

150 g
Almonds

Almond extract

2 tsp
Eggs

Large eggs

4
Milk

Milk

150 ml
Flour

Self raising flour

250 g
Baking-powder

Baking powder

0.5 tsp
Salt-table

Salt

0.5 tsp

Ground almonds

150 g

For the topping

Butter

Unsalted butter

50 g
Pure Cane Caster Sugar

Caster sugar

50 g
Lyle's-golden-syrup

Lyle’s Golden Syrup

100 g
Cream

Double cream

2 tbsp
Flaked almonds

Flaked almonds, roughly chopped

120 g

For the filling

Milk

Whole milk

480 ml
Vanilla

Vanilla extract

1 tsp
Eggs

Large egg yolk

6
Granulated Sugar

Tate & Lyle Granulated Sugar

150 g
Cornstarch

Cornstarch

40 g
Butter

Unsalted butter

1 tbsp

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