GLAZED ORANGE BAVARIAN CAKE

Steps:

• Glaze the orange slices:.
• Bring the sugar and water to a boil in a large pot.
• Add orange slices, lower the heat and simmer for 2.5 hours.
• Remove from heat.
• Let cool in syrup overnight.
• Make the Cake:.
• Preheat overn to 350 degrees.
• Butter and flour a 10-inch springform pan.
• Beat the eggs and sugar with an electric mixer for 10 minutes, until very thick and pale.
• Gradually fold in the flour.
• Fold 1/4 of the batter into the melted butter, then fold the butter mixture into the remaining batter.
• Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the center of the oven for about 35 minutes, until a cake tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Cool on a wire rack.
• Run a knife around teh edge of the pan to release the cake.
• Remove the sides and the bottom of the pan.
• Trim any crips edges and slice the cake horzontally into 3 thin layers.
• Orange Bavarian Cream:.
• In a medium saucepan, heat the milk to simmering.
• In a bowl, beat the yolks with 9 tablespoons of the sugar until well combined.
• Gradually beat in the hot milk.
• Stir in the softened gelatin.
• Retrun the mixture to the saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden sppon for about 10 minutes, until the mixture thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon, (Do not let boil or the eggs will curdle.).
• Stir in the vanilla and Cointreau.
• Place the saucepan over a bowl of rice and stir until the mixture of mounds.
• In a bowl, softly whip the cream with the remaining tbsp of sugar.
• Carefully fold it into the chillled Bavarian mixture.
• Assemble:.
• Line a 10" springform pan with plastic wrap, leaving a 5" overhang all around.
• Drain the orange slices and reserve the syrup.
• Choose the largest slices and place them in a decorative pattern on the bottom and sides of the pan.
• Finely chop the remaining oranges and fold into the Bavarian Cream.
• Spoon 1/3 of the Bavarian Cream over the oranges.
• Place 1 layer of the cake over the cream and brush with some of the reserved syrup.
• Repeat twice wtih the remaining cream and layers.
• Cover with plastic wrap.
• Place a 9" cake pan on top of the cake and put a 2 lb. weight in the center of the pan.
• Refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
• To Serve:.
• Remove the weighted pan and plastic wrap.
• Invert the cake onto a serving platter.
• Remove the sides and bottom of the pan and peel off the plastic wrap.
• Slice with a very sharp knife.