Desserts
Cold Shamwa Cake
Cold Shamwa Cake is an easy, quick dessert made with just a few ingredients. It tastes delicious and refreshing because it is served chilled from the fridge.
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Cold Shamwa Cake is an easy, quick dessert made with just a few ingredients. It tastes delicious and refreshing because it is served chilled from the fridge.
Ingredients
- First layer:
- 3 cups chocolate biscuits, ground (or plain biscuits mixed with 3 tablespoons cocoa powder)
- 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 can of cream
- Second layer:
- 4 cups liquid milk
- 6 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 packets crème caramel mix
- 1 1/2 cups ground biscuits
- For the top:
- Cocoa powder
- Preparation:
- In a food processor, grind the biscuits finely, then add the butter and process together.
Method
- Add the cream and mix well.
- Press the first layer into a baking dish.
- Start preparing the second layer by mixing all the ingredients together (except the biscuits). Place them in a pot over the heat and keep stirring until the mixture boils and thickens like custard.
- Transfer this mixture to a blender or food processor and blend it with the ground biscuits until smooth.
- Pour this mixture over the first layer in the baking dish.
- Place the dish in the fridge until well chilled, and sprinkle cocoa powder on top before serving.
- Cold Shamwa Cake from a friend and cook on the Shou Tabkhin Today website
- Ruwida Al-Haj Rifai
- Click on Ruwida's name to visit her personal page on our site and get all her wonderful recipes
- Banana Biscuit Balls are another one of Ruwida's easy recipes too
- Layali Lubnan in Cups .. click on the link
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