Princess flan recipe

 Cake preparation

• Grease a springform cake tin thoroughly (approx. 22 cm diameter) and dust with flour
• Beat the eggs and sugar until fluffy, stir in the flour mixed with the cornflour and baking powder and bake at 175 °C for approx. 40 minutes
• Leave the mixture to cool on a wire rack

• Prepare the vanilla custard and leave to cool. Add a pinch of sugar
• Beat half of the cream until stiff and add to the custard
• Spread the cream over the middle layer of the cake and replace the topmost layer
• Spread the rest of the cream over the top and sides of the cake
• Leave to cool

• Mix the marzipan mixture with the icing sugar and glucose
• Colour with the green food colouring and remove a small amount
• Roll out the mixture between two pieces of baking paper until it is as round as possible and can fit over the top and down the sides of the cake
• Roll out the left-over piece and use to decorate the sides
• Melt the chocolate and leave to cool
• Create small crowns or similar and decorate
• Sprinkle the cake with icing sugar
• Decorate with marzipan roses or similar