MILKTART CAKE

MILKTART CAKE
Basic vanilla cake:
150 g soft margarine
3 XL eggs
200 ml milk
5 ml vanilla essence
500 ml cake flour
12 ml baking powder
pinch salt
250 ml caster sugar

Preheat oven to 180°C.
Place margarine, eggs, milk and vanilla essence in large mixing bowl and beat well.
Sift flour, baking powder, salt and caster sugar over the margarine mixture in the bowl. Beat with an electric beater for 1 minute.
Divide batter between 2 cake tins and bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes.
While cake is cooling make you milk tart filling.

My recipe:
Beat together 1 tablespoons custard powder, 2 eggs and 3 tablespoons maizena.
Pour into 1 litre milk and stir well. Add half to 1 cup sugar (depends on taste) and 1 t vanilla essence.
Microwave until mixture is thick enough (I stir every 2 minutes).
Let mixture cool slightly as it then thickens a bit more.
Spread half the mixture on the cake and then place 2nd cake on top and put remainder of mixture on top of cake. Sprinkle cinnamon over.
Photo and recipe: Zelda Ellis