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🍰 Giant Donut Cake with Comic Design
514 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- butter 400 g
- sugar 290 g
- salt pinch
- vanilla extract 2 tsp
- eggs 6 pcs
- wheat flour, type 405 300 g
- baking powder 3 tsp
- milk 400 ml
- whipping cream 100 g
- cornstarch 40 g
- cocoa powder 40 g
- tonka bean paste 1 tsp
- powdered sugar 150 g
- cream cheese, plain 150 g
- coating chocolate, dark 100 g
- chocolate, dark 50 g
- chocolate chunks, dark 50 g
Instructions
- 1. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius using top and bottom heat. Grease a Frankfurt cake pan with baking spray or butter.
- 2. Mix 250 grams of butter with 250 grams of sugar, a pinch of salt, and one teaspoon of vanilla extract for five to six minutes until the mixture is white and creamy.
- 3. Stir the eggs into the butter-sugar mixture one by one for about one minute each.
- 4. Mix the flour with the baking powder.
- 5. Add the flour mixture and 100 milliliters of milk alternately to the batter and mix everything well.
- 6. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the surface.
- 7. Bake the cake in the preheated oven at 170 degrees for about 40 to 45 minutes.
- 8. Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool in the pan for five minutes.
- 9. Carefully turn the cake out onto a cooling rack and let it cool completely.
- 10. In a saucepan, whisk the cream with the starch, cocoa, 40 grams of sugar, the tonka paste, and 50 milliliters of milk until there are no lumps.
- 11. Add the remaining 250 milliliters of milk and bring the mixture to a boil while stirring.
- 12. Remove the pudding mixture from the heat, pour it into a bowl, and cover the surface directly with plastic wrap to prevent a skin from forming.
- 13. Blend the cooled pudding with an immersion blender until a smooth mass is formed.
- 14. Fill the pudding into a piping bag or freezer bag.
- 15. Cut the cooled cake horizontally in the middle once.
- 16. Hollow out the insides of both cake halves in the center, about one to two centimeters deep. Use two bowls as a template for this.
- 17. Pipe the pudding into the hollowed-out indentations.
- 18. Carefully place the top cake half back onto the bottom half.
- 19. Place the filled cake in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.
- 20. Mix 150 grams of soft butter with powdered sugar and one teaspoon of vanilla extract until the mixture is white and creamy.
- 21. Stir the cream cheese amount into the butter cream.
- 22. Fill one tablespoon of the white cream into a small piping bag and set it aside.
- 23. Spread the remaining part of the cream evenly over the entire donut cake.
- 24. Keep a small part of the cream for decoration.
- 25. Melt 100 grams of dark chocolate couverture over a water bath or in the microwave.
- 26. Let the melted chocolate cool down slightly.
- 27. Mix the cooled chocolate with the remaining cream.
- 28. Fill this chocolate-cream mixture into a piping bag with a star tip.
- 29. Pipe the glaze onto the donut and smooth it with a palette knife.
- 30. Pipe small highlights and light reflections onto the surface using the white cream.
- 31. Distribute the chocolate chunks in the still wet glaze.
- 32. Melt 50 grams of dark chocolate couverture over a water bath or in the microwave.
- 33. Let this chocolate cool down slightly as well.
- 34. Mix the cooled chocolate with the remaining cream to create a dark decoration cream.
- 35. Outline all contours of the donut with the dark cream.
- 36. Add any additional small decorative elements as desired.
- 37. Place the finished cake in the refrigerator for at least one hour before serving.
- 38. Place the cake on a cake plate.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 514
- Protein: 7 g · Fett/Fat: 29 g · Carbs: 58 g