Rafaello Cake

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Do you recognize those white, coconut balls? Ohh yes, Rafaello. I love them, I really do.

When I saw commercials, in which people were making each other gifts with huge, white boxes with red bows, full of little goodies, I have always hoped, that somebody would make me a present like that :)

Unfortunately, I am afraid, there are no boxes like this for sale in real, and even though I would like to get it, I would have to buy huge box itself plus lots of kilograms of Rafaello. This solution is way too expensive :P

That is when my mom baked this marvel and I found out that there is such thing as Rafaello recipe! <3 It is not easy, but also not too difficult to make. If I managed to bake it...everyone can ;)

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Ingredients for sponge base:

• 4 eggs
• half glass of flour (the glass volume 250 ml)
• 1 glass of sugar
• 1 spoon of cocoa (genuine one! )

Dough ingredients:

• 4 yolks
• half glass of sugar
• 1 vanilla sugar
• half liter of milk
• 1 vanilla pudding
• 1 butter
• 1 pack of round or square bisquits
• coconut chips

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Directions:

1. Beat egg whites with sugar. In the meantime add yolks.
2. Add flour while mixing.
3. Add baking soda and cocoa.
4. Mix everything thoroughly.
5. Line the tin with baking paper and grease with butter.
6. Pour the dough to rectangle tin and bake it in 180 Celsius degrees for around 40 minutes. When baking you may check if the dough is still raw. Insert wooden toothpick into the thickest part of the cake - if it's raw, the dough will stick to that, which means it is not ready yet.
7. Stir pudding with half a glass of milk
8. Add yolks and vanilla sugar.
9. Prepare the pudding.
10. Cream the butter and gradually add now-cooked pudding to it. Mix everything together.

11. Cut the sponge base into two thinner slices.

12. Spread the dough on the sponge base.
13. Soak the smaller, round biscuits in milk and place them on the surface of the sponge base.
14. Cover the biscuits with dough and then cover them with another layer of sponge base.
15. The rest of dough can be spread on top and sprinkled with coconut chips.

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A little hint for munching lovers: The biscuits can be replaced with crackers ;)

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