Recipe of sand cake "Pani Valevskaya"

The image of Mrs. Valewska is one of the most revered in Poland! The woman who gave birth to a son to Napoleon Bonaparte was the first beauty among the refined Polish noblewomen and proved that even the emperor could not resist their charm.

In this country, perfumes of the same name have long been produced - in a beautiful glass bottle of an unusual shape, resembling a lady in a dress made of crinoline. Also popular is a rather easy to make sand cake.





This luxurious dessert will taste even a sophisticated sweet tooth! Recently, I had a desire to learn how to cook some unusual cake, and after thinking about it, the choice fell on me. "Pani Valevskaya" - a cake adored by the Poles with meringues and nuts.





Sand crust ingredients

• 300g wheat flour
• 200g butter
• 4 yolks
• 40g sugar
• 10g vanilla sugar
• 5g baking powder

Ingredients for bezel

• 4 egg whites
• 180g powdered sugar
• 10g starch
• 400g blackcurrant jam
• 100g walnuts

Cream ingredients

• 400g milk
• 2 eggs
• 40g sugar
• 10g vanilla sugar
• 40g starch
• 150g butter

Preparation

1. Stir the yolks with sugar and vanilla extract or vanilla sugar until homogeneous, you do not need to beat the mass strongly.
   
   
   
   
2. Soak through a sieve of flour, baking powder and salt into a deep bowl.
   
   
   
   
3. Butter in flour and sodium on a large grater. Then rub everything with your hands into a crumb until homogeneous and add the yolks with sugar.
   
   
   
   
4. Mix elastic dough and roll into a thin layer no more than 3 mm in size of the deck. So that the dough does not stick to the roller, cover it with parchment paper, so it will be more convenient to roll.
5. Bake the cake in the oven heated to 180 degrees for 10 minutes.
   
   
   
   
6. In the meantime, make meringue. Whip egg whites with a pinch of salt, gradually introduce powdered sugar, without stopping whipping, to persistent peaks.
7. Add almond flour and vanilla sugar to the proteins. Almond flour can be replaced with flour from walnuts or corn flour. Stir everything thoroughly.
   
   
   
   
8. Take a sand cake out of the oven and evenly distribute the cherry jam over it.
9. Put a merengue on the jam and gently level it around the perimeter of the crust. Put meringue on top with almond flakes. Bake the cake at a temperature of 150 degrees for 30-35 minutes.
   
   
   
   
10. Prepare the oil cream. In a thick bottom soteinka bring the milk to a boil.
11. Mix in a separate bowl sugar, starch and salt. Add eggs to the dry mixture and stir everything with a corolla to a homogeneous mass.
    
    
    
    
12. Part of the milk is poured to the egg mass, mix everything thoroughly and pour a thin trickle into the milk, constantly stirring, until the cream boils and thickens.
13. Add vanilla sugar to the cream, cover it with a food film so that it comes into contact with the cream. Leave the cream cool.
    
    
    
    
14. Butter at room temperature whip with a mixer to a lush mass of 3-4 minutes. Gradually add custard to the oil and each time beat everything well to homogeneity. So that the cream does not layer, and the oil and cream should be the same temperature.
    
    
    
    
15. Cut the cooled crust into 3 pieces. Gather a cake: half cream lubricate the first cake, carefully lay out 2 cakes on it and also lubricate it with the remaining cream. Put the most beautiful cake nuts up on the second. Let the cake brew for at least 3 hours in the refrigerator, it is better to put it there for the night.
    
    
    
    

The recommended size is 38 cm by 30 cm. Even a person who has not dealt with baking at all will easily prepare this masterpiece thanks to such detailed instructions provided by the skillful hostess Lyudmila in her video.

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Currant jam can be replaced by any other! Cherry, crimson, plum, apple, apricot - any will be good. You can replace walnuts with almonds. This one sand-dough So tempting by the contrast of crumbly crust and crispy meringue ... For fragrance in the cream you can add a little cognac.

It’s a very simple preparation! I recommend saving the recipe for a special occasion, it will be useful. Polish cake You should try it at least once in your life!