Name: Gateau Basque
Yield: Serve six people
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 50 g cornflour; 3 eggs; 200 g self-raising flour; 100 g ground almonds; 200 g butter, melted; 150 g crème pâtissière; 200 g granulated sugar; 1 tbl Bundaberg overproof rum; juice and grated rind of half an orange; eggwash

Preparation info

Serve
six
people

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Tony Bilson's Recipe Book

By Tony Bilson

Published 1987

About

This is an adaptation of two recipes — one traditional, collected I remember not when, and the other a version given in Gaston Lenôtre’s fine book, Desserts and Pastries.

Ingredients

200 g self-raising flour
50 g cornflour
100 g

Method

Mix the flour, cornflour and ground almonds together and set aside to rest. Beat the eggs and sugar until they become light yellow. Fold in the dry ingredients, the rum, the orange juice and rind and the melted butter. While the batter is resting, butter a 25-cm diameter x 10-cm deep cake tin and preheat the oven to

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