Twelfth Night Cake

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 lb puff pastry
• 4 1/2 ounces almonds, ground finely
• 3 1/2 ounces sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 ounces butter (unsalted)
• 3 ounces milk
• 2 tablespoons rum
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1 pinch vanilla bean seeds

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400°f.
• 2 to prepare the cream, beat the 2 eggs with the sugar; add the cornstarch mixed with the milk and incorporate it. simmer this mixture while whisking for a few minutes; it will thicken. once thickened, turn the heat off and add the butter in small cubes, then the almonds and vanilla powder, and then the rum. mix well.
• 3 mix the egg yolk with 1 tbs. milk.
• 4 place one disk of the puff pastry on a buttered oven sheet; evenly spread the cream on it up to 1/2 inch of the edge; spread the border with a little of the yolk/milk mixture. cover with the second disk of puff pastry and press the edges to close it up. decorate with a knife to make designs on the pastry, if desired. brush the top with the yolk/milk mixture.
• 5 bake for 40-45 minutes. serve warm.