Recipes · French · Cakes
Gâteau Magique (Magic Custard Cake)
One serving has 212 kcal and 5 g protein. Ready in 260 minutes.
- Preparation: 200 min
- Cooking: 60 min
- Makes: 1 serving (92.3 g)
- Difficulty: Medium
- Diets: Vegetarian
- Contains: alcohol, dairy, egg, gluten
Ingredients
- 16.5 g Eggs, separated
- 12.5 g Caster sugar
- 10.5 g Butter, melted and cooled
- 9.5 g Plain flour
- 42 g Whole milk
- 0.4 g Vanilla extract
- 0.1 g Salt
- 0.8 g Icing sugar (to dust)
Method
- Heat the oven to 150 °C (300 °F) and line a 20 cm square cake tin with baking paper, letting it come up the sides. Warm the milk with the vanilla until lukewarm, not hot.
- Whisk the egg yolks with the caster sugar until pale and thick, then whisk in the melted butter. Whisk in the flour until smooth, then pour in the warm milk a little at a time, whisking, to make a very thin batter.
- In a clean bowl, whisk the egg whites with the salt to stiff peaks. Fold them into the batter in three batches, gently, with a whisk: the batter will stay runny with small lumps of white floating on top, which is right.
- Pour it into the tin and bake for 50-60 minutes, until the top is golden and the cake wobbles only slightly in the middle when you shake the tin.
- Leave it to cool in the tin, then chill it for at least 3 hours, until set: as it bakes it separates into a dense base, a layer of custard and a light sponge on top.
- Lift it out by the paper, dust the top with the icing sugar and cut it into 12 pieces with a sharp knife wiped between cuts. Makes 12 pieces; the amounts are for one serving, so multiply every ingredient by 12 for the whole cake.
Nutrition per serving
| Nutrient | Per serving | Share of a day's need |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 212 kcal | 10% |
| Carbohydrates | 22.7 g | |
| Water | 52.6 mL | |
| Fiber | 0.26 g | 1% |
| Protein | 4.5 g | 9% |
| Tryptophan | 0.06 g | |
| Threonine | 0.18 g | |
| Isoleucine | 0.22 g | |
| Leucine | 0.38 g | |
| Lysine | 0.29 g | |
| Methionine | 0.12 g | |
| Cystine | 0.07 g | |
| Phenylalanine | 0.23 g | |
| Tyrosine | 0.18 g | |
| Valine | 0.27 g | |
| Histidine | 0.12 g | |
| Fat | 11.5 g | |
| Monounsaturated | 3.4 g | |
| Polyunsaturated | 0.75 g | |
| Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) | 0.01 g | |
| Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA) | 0 g | |
| Omega-6 | 0.54 g | |
| Saturated | 6.6 g | |
| Trans-Fats | 0.01 g | |
| Cholesterol | 88.2 mg | |
| Calcium | 60.9 mg | 6% |
| Copper | 0.04 mg | 4% |
| Iron | 0.75 mg | 4% |
| Magnesium | 8.5 mg | 3% |
| Manganese | 0.07 mg | 4% |
| Phosphorus | 80.8 mg | 12% |
| Potassium | 91.8 mg | 2% |
| Selenium | 10 µg | 18% |
| Sodium | 81.8 mg | |
| Zinc | 0.45 mg | 6% |
| Thiamin (vitamin B1) | 0.1 mg | 9% |
| Riboflavin (vitamin B2) | 0.2 mg | 18% |
| Niacin (vitamin B3) | 0.62 mg | 4% |
| Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5) | 0.46 mg | 9% |
| Pyridoxine (vitamin B6) | 0.05 mg | 4% |
| Folate (vitamin B9) | 27.6 µg | 7% |
| Cobalamin (vitamin B12) | 0.35 µg | 15% |
| Choline | 56.5 mg | 13% |
| Vitamin A | 118 µg | 17% |
| Vitamin C | 0 mg | 0% |
| Vitamin D (D2 + D3) | 35 IU | 6% |
| Vitamin E | 0.47 mg | 3% |
| Vitamin K | 0.94 µg | 1% |
Shares of a day's need are for a woman of 30, 165 cm, 60 kg, lightly active, by the US and Canadian Dietary Reference Intakes. SustainBite works out each person's own needs, by the standard where they live: the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations in Norway, the UK's, EFSA's in the EU.
Climate footprint
0.2 kg CO2e a serving: about average for breakfasts, sides, desserts and drinks on SustainBite. Source: ADEME, Agribalyse 3.2.
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