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Receta Recipe: Old cake, new cake… on Shavuos, we have two cakes!
Ingredientes
- 750g gevina levana / white cheese (I used 2 tubs, 1 500g and 1 250g)
- 6 large eggs, separated
- 200ml (1 regular tub) 15% shamenet chamutza / sour shamenet = roughly like sour cream
- 1 1/2 cups white sugar, divided
- 4 tbsp korenflor / cornflour = corn starch (not corn meal!)
- 3 tbsp instant vanilla pudding mix (the Hebrew term for this: “eenstant pooooodeeeeeng vaneeeel”)
- 1 packet vanilla sugar OR real vanilla extract (that’s what I used) How to make it:
- Preheat oven to 160 degrees.
- Mix well the egg yolks, shamenet, corn flour, pudding mix, gevina levana, vanilla sugar / extract, half cup white sugar
- Beat egg whites with one cup sugar until they form peaks
- 3/4 cup milk How to make it:
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