Mandarin Orange Million Layer Cake
Layer Cake with different sensation of taste in every layer is a unique culinary delight. It surprises us! The crunchy layers with the smooth butter in a special orange taste will spoil any culinary lovers.

Ingredients
Making the Puff Pastry
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Medium Protein Flour 430.0 g
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Salt 8.0 g
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Cold Water 230.0 g
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Pastry Fat Shortening 285.0 g
Making the Layer Cake
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Egg Yolk 225.0 g
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Icing Sugar 175.0 g
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Cake Margarine 250.0 g
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Condensed Milk 50.0 g
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Medium Protein Flour 50.0 g
Making Orange Butter Cream
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White Shortening 400.0 g
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Cake Margarine 100.0 g
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Condensed Milk 250.0 g
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Orange Syrup 100.0 g
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Sugar 200.0 g
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Orange Zest 1.0 pc
Preparation
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Making the Puff Pastry
- Add the flour and salt in a mixer and mix them with a hook.
- Pour the water gradually.
- Keep stirring them until they are transform into a dough that is smooth and not sticky on the bowl.
- Ball the dough and mark the dough with "+" (do not let the dough be cut). Then, set aside it for 10 minutes in a chiller.
- Take the dough from the chiller and roll the dough like an open envelope.
- Add pastry fat shortening in the middle and fold the edges covering the pastry fat.
- Roll the dough in 5-7 mm in size, fold it with single fold and mark on the side of the dough and put it on the chiller in 10 minutes.
- Take the dough and rotate it until you find the mark. The mark should be placed on the top.
- Roll the dough again in 5-7 mm in size, fold it with single fold and mark on the side of the dough and put it on the chiller in 10 minutes.
- Do the same step until 6 times single folds.
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Making the Layer Cake
- Heat the oven with above side heater temperature at 210°C. Put the metal pan that is rotated in the oven (to avoid direct contact between the metal pan and below side heater).
- Whisk the egg yolk and icing sugar until they expand.
- In another mixer, whisk margarine until it expands and then, add condensed milk and mix them well.
- Add the whisked margarine into the whisked egg. Mix them well. Next, add the flour that has been sieved and mix them well.
- Heat a 22x22x4 cm metal pan that has been covered by baking pepper on the lower side.
- Then, put 3 tbsp of the whisk ingredients in the metal pan and arrange them well in the lower side.
- Bake it in 5 minutes. And put 3 tbsp the whisked ingredients again on the top side of the first baked whisked ingredients.
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Making Orange Butter Cream
- Make the orange syrup with cooking the orange juice with sugar and orange zest well. Then, add orange pasta and set it aside.
- Whisk white shortening and margarine until it expands well.
- Next, pour orange syrup and condensed milk and blend them well.
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Finishing
- Take 1 puff pastry. Pipe orange butter cream on the top of puff pastry and put the sliced layer cake on the top.
- Pipe orange butter cream on the top of the layer cake and put another puff pastry on the top.
- Garnish it with dusting sugar, orange butter cream and canned Mandarin orange.