Pimlico Cake
Ingredients
- 1 Boxed cake mix of your choice (follow directions to make one cake)
- Favorite fudge frosting
- Pastry cream
Pastry cream
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- Pinch salt
- 4 egg yolks
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tbs. butter
Instructions
- Cook milk, 1st measure of sugar, vanilla, and salt in medium saucepan until simmers.
- Whisk together yolks, cornstarch, and 2nd measure of sugar.
- Pour hot milk mixture one cup at a time into yolk mixture.
- Pour mix back into saucepan; cook on medium high, whisking constantly until thick (about 2 minutes).
- Transfer to a mixing bowl with paddle.
- Add butter to hot mixture.
- Mix until cool (about 5 minutes).
Assembly
- Slice cake into 3 equal layers (set aside top 2 layers).
- Spread pastry cream onto cake layer, and top with cake layer (alternate until there are two layers of pastry cream and three layers of cake, ending with cake at top).
- Ice cake with favorite fudge icing, chill until ready to serve.
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