Tag: semi sugar free

  Bienenstich or "Bee sting cake" is a German baked dessert with a topping of caramelised almonds; the base is split and filled with a stiff vanilla custard cream or Buttercream. Mmh, yummy!  No it doesn't sting I made this a couple of days ago whilst doing heavy duty DIY on my bathroom, I fancied a sweet and remembered my friend telling me she was making this cake for her birthday party in germany. Uhh - I haven't had one of these in a decade so I though why not make one quickly. I replaced the traditional yeast cake base with a biscuit sponge base which much quicker to make, no waiting for the dough to rise, it also give it a slightly lighter base which I sweetened with  natural zero calorie stevia sweetener ; this saves some of the empty calories that the sugar would normally add. For the filling, I used stiff whipped whipping cream  mixed with one 3rd thick vanilla custard pudding which I also sweetened with stevia-sweet. The only thing I could not make sugar free was...