While the layers are baking, you can make the sweetened condensed milk cream.
With a mixer, whip room temperature butter for about 5 minutes or until it is very fluffy and pale in color. Scrape the bowl several times throughout the process. Now, while continuing to whip, pour the condensed milk down the side of the bowl. Minimally whip to avoid the buttercream from separating.
Assemble the Markiza Cake
Once you have all of your layers baked and completely cooled, start layering the cake with cream. Add a dab of frosting to a platter and place the first layer of cake on top pressing to adhere.
Layer the rest of the cake with bottlayers om side up, this will make it easy to spread the cream. Top each layer with 1 ½ – 2 cups of frosting
Top each cake layer with about 1.5-2 cups of frosting and spread it around into a thin layer.
If you would like to decorate the top with buttercream and make the intricate design like you see in the pictures, you need to put the last cake layer meringue side down. Otherwise, you can leave the meringue up and make it serve the purpose of your ‘decoration’, like we did in the Holiday Cake.
Continue layering until all cake layers are frosted. You should have some remaining cream to frost the outside of the cake in a thin layer of buttercream.
Split the cake into two equal parts down the middle and stack them on top of each other gluing them with some buttercream. Now your cake has 6 layers, instead of 3.
Cover the outside of the cake with a thin layer of frosting, hiding the cake layers underneath it. Use additional 2 cups chopped nuts to press against the sides of the cake.
If you would like the intricate latice design on top, you will need to make additional buttercream with 8 oz of butter (2 sticks) and 1 can sweetened condensed milk, by following the same directions on how to make the Russian Buttercream as above.
Fill a piping bag with about 2 cups of frosting, pipe a border all around the top of the cake. Then make a lattice pattern like you see on the pictures. Using the same piping tip, pipe a little star inside each square and top with a sugar bead.
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