Name: Cardinal Slices (Kardinalschnitten)
Yield: About ten 1½-inch-wide slices
Cuisine: Austrian
Ingredients: 3 large egg yolks; 2 large eggs; 1 cup sugar; Pinch salt; 1 cup egg whites (from about 7 large eggs); 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; ¼ cup sugar; Confectioners’ sugar for dusting; ½ cup all-purpose flour (spoon flour into dry-measure cup and level off); 2 tablespoons sugar; 1¼ cups heavy whipping cream; Confectioners’ sugar for finishing; 2 tablespoons instant espresso dissolved in 2 tablespoons boiling water and cooled

Preparation info

About
ten
1½ inch -wide slices

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Baker's Tour

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2005

About

This elaborate cake is one of the glories of Viennese pastry. The cake layers are made of alternating meringue and ladyfinger batters, and the filling is a luscious coffee-flavored whipped cream. All my attempts to find out about the origins of the name have met with failure—though it isn’t too far-fetched to imagine a jolly, rotund Austrian prince of the church enjoying these.

This is a recipe in which organization is important. Have all the ingredients for the ladyfinger batter re