Waves of the danube recipe

Waves of the Danube recipe

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About this recipe

In this blog post I will guide you thru the steps and ingredients needed to craft this recipe. Grab your favorite apron and let's start.
The "Waves of the Danube" recipe is a traditional Hungarian dessert that pays homage to the iconic river. This delectable treat is made with layers of delicate pastry filled with a rich and creamy vanilla custard. Topped with a dusting of powdered sugar, each bite of this dessert transports you to the banks of the beautiful Danube.

Keywords: Hungarian, dessert, pastry, vanilla custard, powdered sugar.

Waves of the danube recipe details

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Ingredients

250 g	butter
200 g	sugar
5	eggs
375 g	flour
1 tsp	baking soda
1 pinch(es)	salt
30 g	cacao, 70%
1 tbsp	milk
1 glass(es)	cherries in syrup
	For the cream:
150 g	butter
40 g	custard powder
2 tbsp	sugar
500 ml	milk
1	vanilla pod
100 g	sour cream
	For the topping:
1 tbsp	tasteless oil (best: coconut fat)
200 g	dark chocolate (70%)

Instructions

Dough:
Mix butter with sugar. Add one egg at a time to get a nice, fluffy dough. Add flour, salt and baking soda and mix only shortly.

Preheat oven to 180°C. Prepare square tray. Distribute 2/3 of dough on baking tray.

Add cocoa and milk to the rest of the dough, mix. Put on top of the first layer. Drain cherries and pinch them singly into the cocoa dough, so that they nearly disappear. Bake for approximately 40 minutes.

Cream:
In the meantime, mix custard with sugar and 2 tablespoons of milk. Scratch the inside of the vanilla pod into the rest of the milk, add the bark and bring to boil. Take the pot from stove and stir the custard mix into. Boil again while stirring until it thickens. Let cool down, stir every now and then so there will be no skin on the pudding. Take out vanilla pod.

When cooled down to room temperature, mix well with butter and sour cream.

When the cake has cooled down, fence it with aluminium foil, then spread the topping on top of the cake. Place in fridge until the topping is somewhat harder, about 1 hour.

Topping:
Melt chocolate in water bath until fully melted, add coconut fat. Spread evenly on top of the cake. You can, if you are artistic, add a wavy pattern. Cool again until chocolate topping hardened. Cut with a knife that you place in hot water for every piece you cut, so you do not destroy the chocolate topping.

Preparation time:
ca. 1 hr
Grade of difficulty:
medium
Calories per portion:
n/a