Ingredients

  • * 2 dozen ladyfingers, crumbled
  • * 1/2 cup milk, mixed with
  • * 2 tablespoons cornstarch
  • * 1/4 cup strong black coffee
  • * 4 egg yolks, slightly beaten
  • * 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • * 1/2 cup softened sweet butter (ie, unsalted)
  • * 1/2 cup sugar
  • * 1/2 cup blanched slivered almond

Directions

1.
1
Combine milk, cornstarch, coffee& egg yolks in top of double boiler and cook over boiling water until pudding consistency.
2.
2
Remove from heat, and let cool.
3.
3
Cream butter with sugar and add the pudding mixture by tablespoon-fulls, stirring constantly.
4.
4
Add almonds& vanilla.
5.
5
Line a cake pan with one-third of lady fingers; put half of pudding mixture on top.
6.
6
Repeat layers, with the last third of crumbled lady fingers on top.
7.
7
Cover with waxed paper and refrigerate overnight with a weight on top, so that the pudding will be absorbed by the cake.
8.
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Serve with whipped cream on top.



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Submitted 12/27/08.
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Submitted By: j w

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