Description

Effie first made this cake for us in “the white house” when we visited for Mom’s funeral. It made us all feel better for a few minutes. I got the recipe from Bellina, but there are a few translation problems. My comments in ().

Ingredients

  • 3 cans concentrated milk (Sweetened Condensed Milk)
  • 2 cups Creme Fresh from bakery (I used Heavy Cream)
  • Bisquick sugarless (Only had regular Bisquick at the store)
  • 2/3 cup of milk
  • 1 egg
  • 2 TBSP sugar
  • 3 chocolate bars
  • bananas
  • sweet liquor (I used Godiva Liquor)

Directions

Caremel Sauce

  1. Boil 3 cans of concentrated milk for 2 hours. (I used a double boiler for this.)
  2. Stir every 5-10 minutes.

Base of Cake

  1. Pre-heat oven to 400.
  2. Combine 2 cups of Bisquick, milk, egg, and sugar in a bowl.
  3. Stir until smooth.
  4. Poor in large casserole dish and spread evenly.
  5. Cook for about 20 minutes or until golden brown.
  6. Test center with a knife or toothpick.
  7. Let cool and then spread a little liquor all over top of cake to soak in.

Last steps

  1. When milk finishes boiling, take off heat and let cool.
  2. Whip heavy cream until very thick.
  3. Mix heavy cream into milk a little at a time.
  4. Stir well.
  5. Pour milk mixture on top of cake.
  6. Refrigerate over night.
  7. Garnish with banana slices and shaved chocolate.

Notes

  • Effie never specified how to boil the milk. Some internet searches revealed there are a number of methods, but I chose to go with this as it was the safest and most likely what Effie did.
  • Bellina had a hard time describing the cream. Her words were “Creme Fresh” but I believe she meant Fresh unpasteurized Cream from a baker. I wasn’t able to find this, so I went with ultra-pasteurized Heavy Cream. This is harder to make thick, but it did the trick.