Malakov Torte

Total Time: 8 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 8 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 dozen ladyfingers, crumbled
• 1/2 cup milk, mixed with
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/4 cup strong black coffee
• 4 egg yolks, slightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 cup softened sweet butter (ie, unsalted)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup blanched slivered almond

Recipe

• 1 combine milk, cornstarch, coffee& egg yolks in top of double boiler and cook over boiling water until pudding consistency.
• 2 remove from heat, and let cool.
• 3 cream butter with sugar and add the pudding mixture by tablespoon-fulls, stirring constantly.
• 4 add almonds& vanilla.
• 5 line a cake pan with one-third of lady fingers; put half of pudding mixture on top.
• 6 repeat layers, with the last third of crumbled lady fingers on top.
• 7 cover with waxed paper and refrigerate overnight with a weight on top, so that the pudding will be absorbed by the cake.
• 8 serve with whipped cream on top.