Puff Pastry Cake with Vanilla Cream and Raspberries

Ingredients

• 500 ml milk
• Zest of 1 lemon
• 2 eggs
• 20 g vanilla sugar or 4 tsp vanilla extract
• 80 g sugar
• 60 g cornstarch
• 700 g puff pastry
• 250 g cream cheese
• 40 g powdered sugar
• 200 g cream 33%
• 150 g raspberries for decoration

Method

1. Heat milk with lemon zest.
2. Mix eggs, vanilla sugar, sugar, and cornstarch.
3. Slowly stir hot milk into the egg mixture.
4. Return everything to the pot and thicken while stirring.
5. Let vanilla cream cool down.
6. Roll out puff pastry and bake in desired shape.
7. Beat cream cheese with powdered sugar and cream until creamy.
8. Fold cooled vanilla cream into the cream cheese mixture.
9. Fill the cake with the cream and smooth it out.
10. Decorate with fresh raspberries.
11. Chill the cake before serving.