Pastry Creme Layered Orange Marmalade Cake
By: unfoodandfrolic
Published: Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 11:02pm

Ingredients




For orange cake:
2 ½ Cup All Purpose Flour
¼ Cup Orange Juice
½ Cup Orange Marmalade
2 ½ Tsp Baking Powder
150g unsalted butter, softened
2/4 Cup plain granulated sugar
3 eggs, separated
½ Cup milk, at room temperature
For Pastry Cream:
250ml full cream milk
¼ Cup whipping cream
2 Tbsp orange marmalade
1 Tsp orange extract
75g castor sugar
25g all purpose flour
2 egg yolks
2 tsp vanilla extract

Preparation

1 For cake, sift flour and baking powder together in a bowl. 2 In a large bowl cream butter, sugar with an electric beater at medium speed until light and fluffy in texture. Mix in egg yolks and beat for another 2 - 3 minutes. 3 Stir in the marmalade, orange juice and milk. Fold in the sifted flour one third at a time until all combined well. Do not over mix the batter else cake would be tough in texture. Once all combined well stop mixing the batter and make sure no lumps of flour remain at the bottom of the bowl. 4 In a clean dry bowl beat the egg whites with an electric beater until they form firm/stiff peaks. Fold gently into the cake batter without deflating the egg whites. 5 Preheat the oven to 150 degree celsius. Grease 8 inch round tin and line it with parchment paper. 6 Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake in the preheated oven for 35 minutes or until the tester inserted in the center comes out clean. 7 Remove from the oven and set aside on a wire rack to cool. 8 For pastry cream, in a heavy bottomed deep pan pour milk and add half of the sugar. 9 Put the pan over the low flame stirring occasionally. 10 Meanwhile in a wide flat bowl mix flour with remaining sugar. Add both the egg yolks to flour in the center and do not mix. 11 Once the sugar is dissolved in the milk stop stirring but keep the milk boiling. 12 After some time a layer of fat is formed on top of the boiling milk scoop out the same with a ladle and pour it over the flour on the sides. Do not pour the fat layer of milk in the center over the egg yolks otherwise they will be cooked. 13 Now mix egg yolks and flour mixture together and add some more milk. Mix nicely. 14 At last add all the batter to the boiling milk and keep on whisking vigorously. After 2 - 3 minutes a thick texture cream will start forming leaving sides of the pan. Remove from heat and transfer to a clean bowl. 15 Set aside to cool down at room temperature. This can be made in advance and stored in fridge. 16 Meanwhile in a clean bowl whip cream until stiff peaks form, fold this cream gently into the cooled pastry cream along with orange marmalade and orange extract. 17 For assembling, slice the cake half horizontally. Place the bottom half of the cake in a serving plate and spread half of the pastry cream over it. Cover with the top half of the cake. Use the remaining cream to cover the top. 18 Garnish with orange slice and peel.

About

With some Nagpur Oranges in hand and a bottle of orange marmalade lying in the fridge for a while the first and the obvious choice was an Orange Marmalade Cake, tanginess of orange, sweetness of pastry cream and bitterness of marmalade make this cake a perfect tea time treat. 
This Pastry Cream or you could say custard cream is quite a versatile cream, fold in some fresh seasonal fruits and berries and you have fruit custard, layer a fruit tart with a generous helping of pastry cream and cover it with sliced fruits or simply fold in some whipped cream and you have an amazing frosting in hand. I infused orange flavor in the cream to compliment the flavor of the cake otherwise plain vanilla pastry cream is perfect for custards and frosting.