CUSTARD CAKE

This delicious free Custard Cake Recipe is great for when your time is limited and you need to whip up something quickly!

Ingredients


Cake:
180ml milk
90g butter or margarine
3 extra large eggs
250ml sugar 
375ml cake flour
15ml baking powder
1ml salt


Custard Filling & Topping:
250ml milk
20ml custard powder
60g butter or margarine
125ml castor sugar
sliced almonds to garnish


Method


Cake:

• Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
• Heat the milk and butter. Leave aside to cool slightly.
• Beat the eggs and sugar until creamy. 
• Sift dry the ingredients and add to egg mixture. 
• Add the heated milk and butter to the flour mixture. 
• Turn out into two greased 20cm cake tins and bake for about 25 minutes.

Custard: 

• Heat the milk and thicken with the custard powder.
• Boil for a few minutes and set aside to cool slightly. 
• Beat the butter and sugar well and gradually add the custard and beat lightly until smooth.
• Fill and top the cake layers with custard and garnish with sliced almonds.
• Allow custard to set and refrigerate.

Make 1 cake