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  • Serves 4
  • 1.5 hours
  • Difficulty Medium
  • 7 Ingredients

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You can easily make this custard cake gluten free by using gluten free flour and icing sugar.


Ingredients (serves 4)

  • 4 eggs whites separated, room temp
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 125 g butter (melted)
  • 3/4 cup all purpose flour
  • 2 cups milk (lukewarm)
  • icing sugar for dusting

Method

  1. Preheat oven to approx 180 degrees and grease an 8 x 8 inch dish.
  2. Separate eggs and add the whites to a mixer and beat until stiff. Then place in a bowl and set aside.
  3. Beat the egg yolks and sugar until light. Add the butter and vanilla then beat for 2 minutes.
  4. Add the flour and mix it in until fully incorporated. Slowly start adding millk and beat until everything is well mixed.
  5. Add the egg whites a third at a time and gently fold in with a spatula, repeat until all egg whites are folded in.
  6. Pour batter into a baking dish (will be quite wet) and bake for approximately 60 minutes or until the top is lightly golden.
  7. Cool and then dust heavily with icing sugar.

  • Yum, I love a good Custard cake. I will be jotting down this recipe.

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  • Yummy this looks amazing. I will be trying this weekend

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  • Can’t go wrong with a custard cake.

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  • My husband loves custard. I think I’m going to have to make this one for him!

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  • I was expecting heaps of ingredients. How yum!

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  • Handy to make when you have milk to use up

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  • Yummo! Definitely adding this one to my list of things to bake as well.

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  • Oh yummy. This sounds like an awesome after dinner treat.

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  • Yum the recipe seems so easy I love custard especially baked will be trying this.

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  • I love anything custard. This recipe looks great!

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  • Oh my goodness, Custard is one of my fave desserts!!!
    Definitely going to try this. I’m sure it’ll be gone the first day.

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  • I love custard but am too lazy to make it from scratch. This recipe makes it seem a lot easier!

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  • They look amazing! One of my favourites!

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  • Ohhh yummy!!!!

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  • Can’t go past this

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  • I love custard cakes and totally forgot about these beauties. Will try it this weekend!

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  • This might be great with fruits as well.

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  • I’d love to make this to share with family and friends. Sounds easy to prepare too.

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  • Oooo yum! I love a little dessert or a LOT

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  • Just wondering why this is called a custard cake when it doesn’t have custard powder as ingredient ?

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