This recipe has been sent by our friend Luz Maria Lagoa Vives. Hello everyone. Well, today is a special day, we celebrate my mother-in-laws birthday, and as it could not be otherwise, I have prepared a cake, which I am sure she will love.

It is a Karpatka cake with diplomat cream, the original one goes with mousseline cream (pastry cream and butter), but it becomes a bit heavy because of the butter, and, as she loves whipped cream, I thought about filling it with pastry cream and whipped cream (diplomat), I feel that I am going too far, both in the text and with the photos, but I want you to have no minimal complication in making it. And I also want you to appreciate the cake as if you had it in front of your eyes. Without further ado, lets go with the recipe,,, not without first mentioning that I hope you like it and I encourage you to make it

Karpatka cake with diplomat cream step by step:

Ingredients:

For the pastry cream:

2 eggs

120 grams of sugar

50 grams of cornstarch

500 ml of milk

Vanilla essence

300 ml of whipped cream + 35 grams of powdered sugar

4 sheets of neutral gelatin

For the choux pastry:

150 ml of milk

150 ml of water

190 grams of wheat flour

5 eggs (size M)

A pinch of salt

1 teaspoon of sugar

100 grams of butter

Preparation:

Pastry cream:

Place all the ingredients for the pastry cream in the mixing bowl, except the ess...