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 <head>
  <title>Gateau Basque / Pastel Vasco</title>
  <source>
   <srcitem>Unai Garro</srcitem>
  </source>
  <categories>
   <cat>Desserts</cat>
   <cat>Sweets</cat>
  </categories>
  <yield>4</yield>
  <preptime type="Total">
   <time>
    <qty>0</qty>
    <timeunit>minutes</timeunit>
   </time>
  </preptime>
 </head>
 <ingredients>
  <ing>
   <amt>
    <qty>185</qty>
    <unit>grams</unit>
   </amt>
   <item>butter</item>
   <prep></prep>
  </ing>
  <ing>
   <amt>
    <qty>425</qty>
    <unit>grams</unit>
   </amt>
   <item>flour</item>
   <prep></prep>
  </ing>
  <ing>
   <amt>
    <qty>250</qty>
    <unit>grams</unit>
   </amt>
   <item>sugar</item>
   <prep></prep>
  </ing>
  <ing>
   <amt>
    <qty>7</qty>
    <unit></unit>
   </amt>
   <item>egg yolks</item>
   <prep></prep>
  </ing>
  <ing>
   <amt>
    <qty>1</qty>
    <unit></unit>
   </amt>
   <item>eggs</item>
   <prep></prep>
  </ing>
  <ing>
   <amt>
    <qty>300</qty>
    <unit>grams</unit>
   </amt>
   <item>icing sugar</item>
   <prep></prep>
  </ing>
  <ing>
   <amt>
    <qty>1</qty>
    <unit>stick</unit>
   </amt>
   <item>cinnamon</item>
   <prep></prep>
  </ing>
  <ing>
   <amt>
    <qty>1</qty>
    <unit></unit>
   </amt>
   <item>vanilla pods</item>
   <prep></prep>
  </ing>
  <ing>
   <amt>
    <qty>100</qty>
    <unit>grams</unit>
   </amt>
   <item>almonds</item>
   <prep></prep>
  </ing>
  <ing>
   <amt>
    <qty>100</qty>
    <unit>grams</unit>
   </amt>
   <item>currants</item>
   <prep></prep>
  </ing>
  <ing>
   <amt>
    <qty>0.5</qty>
    <unit>liter</unit>
   </amt>
   <item>milk</item>
   <prep></prep>
  </ing>
 </ingredients>
 <directions>
  <step>First, we need to make the dough: place in a mixing bowl 375g of the flour and make a hole in the middle, where you can place the butter slightly soft, the icing (or normal) sugar, 3 egg yolks, the egg, and 375g flour. Mix all these properly until you get something quite consistant.  And leave it in the fridge for at least 1/2 an hour, covered with cling film.

In the mean time, in order to make some cream, put the milk boiling in a saucepan, and add the cinnamon and the vanilla pod. Midwhile, mix in a bowl the 150 g of the sugar, the rest of the flour (50g), and the 4 egg yolks that are left. Once the milk is boiling, remove the cinnamon and the vanilla pod and add this mixture to the milk. Keep going on mixing continuously until the cream gets quite thick, and once it starts boiling add the almonds, previously grounded, 100 g of sugar which is left, and the currants. Leave this mixture in the fridge for 1/2 an hour.

Once these two things are done, get a mould ready for baking spreading a bit of butter and then flour so that the cake won't stick to the mould.

Now, put a thin (less than 5mm) layer of the dough covering the bottom and side parts of the mould, and fill it in with the cream, and cover on top with the rest of the dough in the same way.

Paint the cake's top part with a bit of whisked egg, and put it in the oven at 190C for around 30 mins. Et voilá! you have a delicious sweet cake.</step>
 </directions>
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