Blitz Torte - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
4 beaten egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 tablespoons milk
1 cup cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup sliced almonds
1 1/4 cups sugar
4 egg whites
sliced almonds
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon sugar
Custard sauce recipe
3 tablespoons flour
1/3 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon butter

Preparation

Cream shortening and sugar, beat til fluffy; Add egg yolks, vanilla, and 3 Tbsp of milk. Add The cake flour mixed with the baking powder and salt. Spread mixture into 2 greased/pamed layer pans, they will be very thin layers.
Beat egg whites til very stiff, add the sugar gradually. Spread on top of the 2 cake mixturse and sprinke with cinnamon-sugar and sliced almonds.
Bake at 350 for apx 30 minute, until toothpick comes out clean.
Combine and cook flour, sugar salt amd milk for a nice thick custard. Remove from heat and add 1 tsp butter and 1/2 tsp vanilla to mixture. Spread between layers and cut into slices for a wonderful dessert! sometimes, if the cake seems a bit dry, I make a double batch of the custard and drizzle it down the sides and use extra in the middle.