Lapis Legit Prunes

Aaah.. finally, I can tell you, 2 hours baking ? worth it !! Well, this is the MUST cake at ours home for Eid Fitri Festive. My hubby favorite's Indonesian cake ever. I introduce him for the first time when he met me, long time ago. Since than he fallen in love with this cake. But I bake this for special occasion only, too much work..

Lapis Legit Prunes

Source : Yasaboga

Ingredients :
300g butter
200g margarine
3 Tbs sweetened condensed milk
1 Tbs spekkoek spice  (make your own : ground cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, and clove)
100g plain flour
350g caster sugar
30 egg yolks
½ tsp vanilla

prunes, thin slice if you use
 

Directions :
Beat the butter and margarine until fluffy and pale. Add in the sweetened condensed milk.

Beat until well mixed. Beat the egg yolks, sugar and vanilla until thick and pale. Whisk in the butter mixture one spoon at a time, mix well. Fold in the sifted flour and spices, mix well. Prepare a square cake tin 22x22cm, line with baking paper. Spoon the batter into the tin, 3 Tbs at a time, level the surface. Bake first layer with oven temperature reach 350 F until golden brown. Change the setting to grill / broil low heat. 

Spoon in 3 Tbs batter on to the first layer, level. Bake for about 3 minutes or until the surface is golden brown. After 3 layers add slices of prunes, remove and repeat the process until all batter is used. Remove from the oven and let cool on the wire rack.

Note to my friends, visitor, fellow blogger :
Maybe this is my last posting before Eid Fitri Festive, I would like to say :

A very Happy Eid Mubarak to you and your families. 
"Taqaballa Allahu mina wa minkum Al-‘Amal Al-Saliha”

May Allah accept from you and us the good deeds