Crispy chocolate napoleon cake

The cake remains crispy with such a cream, it doesn't get wet! Chocolate, fragrant and crumbly-crunchy, buzz!!
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Crispy chocolate Napoleon cake

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Ingredients

Cake layers
flour
600g
21oz
2.40cup
40.20tbsp
cocoa powder
50g
1.75oz
3.35tbsp
butter
375g
13.13oz
1.50cup
25tbsp
vinegar 9%
15ml
0.50fl oz
1tbsp
salt
0.25tsp
egg
1.5pc
cold water
225ml
7.43fl oz
1cup
15tbsp
The cream
butter
360g
12.60oz
1.44cup
24tbsp
condensed milk
360g
12.60oz
1.44cup
24tbsp
egg
2pc
milk
600ml
19.80fl oz
2.40cup
40.20tbsp
sugar
90g
3.15oz
0.36cup
6tbsp
flour
3Tbs

Method

The calculation in the recipe is for a 22cm (8.66 inch) cake.

Cake layers

  • Pour the flour with cocoa into a mixer bowl, and combine.
  • Add the softened butter (cut into cubes) to the flour. Make chocolate crumbs using a mixer (or by hand).
  • In a bowl, combine the water, egg, vinegar and salt.
  • Turn on the mixer at a low speed (or do it in a bowl or on the table with your hands), and add the liquid mass to the chocolate crumbs in parts. Knead a soft, tender, slightly sticky dough.
  • Put the dough on a plate sprinkled with flour, cover with film, and refrigerate for 1-2 hours until cool.
  • You better roll out the dough on floured parchment, between 2 sheets of parchment. Then carefully remove the top parchment, cut out a circle of the desired diameter (don't remove the edges, bake with them, they will go to crumbs). Pierce the crust with a fork. Immediately after rolling out and cutting out the circle, do not bake! Let it lie on the table for a couple of minutes.
  • Bake the cake layers at 392F (200C) for 10 minutes.

The cream

  • Bring the milk and sugar to a boil.
  • Mix the eggs with flour. Pour a little hot milk into a bowl with eggs, and mix.
  • Pour the whole mixture into milk, stirring constantly; bring to a boil, and cool at room temperature.
  • Whip the softened butter with condensed milk, add the custard in parts, and whip everything together.

Cake assembly

  • Assemble the cake in a ring, lining the sides with acetate or cling film.
  • Alternate the cake layers and the cream. Place the assembled cake in the fridge overnight.
  • Remove the ring and film, sprinkle the top and the sides of the cake with crumbs (make crumbs from scraps, chopping them with your hands).