Napoleon Cake

This is a bastardised form of a famous cake beloved by the Russians. You need an awful lot of condensed milk for this moreish and diabetic-coma-inducing speciality. You can buy it in cans or make your own, which is easier than you think and healthier, and you won’t be supporting a multinational in the process.

For this recipe, you need to make a millefeuille pastry, which is French for ‘a thousand leaves’. One Lincolnshire chef said to me ‘Oh, you mean milly filly pastry!’, which I