Crinkle Cake

 

I don't have a Tik Tok account somehow a friend of mine shared this particular cake in my what's app to give it a try. I was amazed at how easy they process and baked my own.  Other than phyllo pastry all the other ingredients are something you can find in your everyday pantry. As for me,  I had a ready stock of phyllo pastry and I quickly get into work. 

As posh as the cake might look or at least at first glance I thought it might be extremely difficult to bake but,  trust me it was an easy peas even for a beginner. Just scrunch the dough to form the crinkles and walla you're are done with the "art" 😁. Not sure why it was called as crinkle cake I would rather call it crinkle pastry. 

It was more to Mediterranean ellements in the cake with the usage of phyllo pastry and drizzling of sugar sugar. The original sugar syrup calls for simple syrup but I made a twist to it by adding cinnamon stick and cardamom pods which enhance the flavou.

I shared the cake with my Dandelion's classmates and all I received is praises alone. Indeed it was a delicious and flavourful cake to cherish among family and friends.

Ingredients 

1 package of phyllo pastry,  defrost

1/2 cup water 

1 cup milk 

2 large eggs 

1 tsp vanilla extract 

1 cup melted butter

2 cups sugar, divided 

1 cinnamon stick

2 pods cardamom 

2 tbsp chopped pistachio 

Methods

Preheat oven at 350'F or 175'C and line a 13x9 inch baking tray with parchment paper.

Take 2 sheets of phyllo dough, hold both ends fold them into crinkle by scrunching about an inch thick.

 Place in the prepared baking pan with the folds facing up. Repeat with the remaining phyllo dough and stack till the tray are full. Bake for 10 minutes. 

Remove from oven and drizzle evenly with melted butter. Bake for another 10 minutes.

In a large bowl, whisk in sugar, milk, eggs, vanilla extract.

Remove the crinkle from the oven and pour over the egg milk mixture. Bake for 35-40 minutes. 

In a pan boil the remaining 1 cup sugar, water,cinnamon stick and cardamom pods over medium heat for 10 minutes or till the mixture thickened. Turn off the heat.

Remove the crinkle cake from oven and drizzle with the sugar sugar. Let it rest for 1 hour for the syrup to absorb.

Sprickle with chopped pistachio, slice and serve.