Gâteau St. Honoré

Name: Gâteau St. Honoré
Yield: Serves Four to Five
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 75 g/3 oz butter; pinch of salt; 75 g/3 oz sugar; 3 egg yolks; 150 g/6 oz flour; 2 drops vanilla essence; 300 ml/½ pint milk; 100 g/4 oz granulated sugar; 2 egg yolks; 50 g/2 oz castor sugar; 20 g/¾ oz flour; 20 g/¾ oz cornflour; vanilla essence; 225 ml/7½ fl oz water; 3 small eggs, lightly beaten; 95 g/3¾ oz flour

Preparation info

Serves
Four to Five

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

About

A monster version of this cake is generally served as a French wedding cake. This quantity, however, is more moderate.

Ingredients

For the Pastry

150 g/6 oz flour
pinch of salt

Europe
France
Cake
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Start with the pastry. Allow the butter to soften out of the refrigerator. Sift the flour into a large bowl and make a well in the centre. Put the salt and softened butter into the middle and put the egg yolks on top of the butter. Pour the sugar in the middle as well and add a few drops of vanilla essence.

Now using the fingertips of one hand only, pinch and mix the sugar, yolks, etc.