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- From: viv@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au (Viviane Buzzi)
- Subject: German Buttercake
- Message-ID: <9402271220.AA59766@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 94 23:20:40 +1100
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- Yasmine Sanderson sent a note asking about a recipe for a German
- butterkuchen... a butterkuchen is just a buttercake...any German plain
- bundt cake made with a generous amount of butter is a butterkuchen.
- I have a recipe of this type which is very rich and buttery and is simple
- to make. I got the recipe from an old book by an Australian cookery
- writer called Margaret Fulton...but the recipe is very authentic despite
- that!! I hope you like it!!
-
- Regards,
-
- Viviane (viv@higgs.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
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- GERMAN BUTTERKUCHEN/BUNDT CAKE
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- 200g/7oz butter 1/4 tsp almond essence
- 1/3 cup whole blanched almonds 2 1/4 cups plain flour
- 3/4 cup icing sugar, sifted 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 cup caster sugar pinch of salt
- 3 eggs, separated 3/4 cup milk
- 3/4 tsp vanilla essence extra icing sugar, to finish
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- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F. Grease a 6-7 cup fluted ring cake mould
- with 30g/1oz butter, putting large dabs in the creases of the mould and
- embedding an almond in each dab. Put in the refrigerator to set while
- preparing the mixture.
- Cream the remaining butter well. Gradually beat in the sugars, beating
- well between each addition. Add the egg yolks one at a time, and beat
- until smooth. Stir in the vanilla and almond essences. Sift the flour,
- baking powder and salt three times and fold into the creamed mixture
- alternately with the milk (the last addition should be flour).
- Whisk the egg whites until stiff, stir a spoonful into the cake mixture
- and, when incorporated, fold in the remaining whites carefully and
- lightly using a large metal spoon.
- Pour into the prepared tin and bake for about 1 1/2 hours or until the
- cake is cooked when tested with a skewer. Allow to stand for about
- 15 minutes before turning out. Allow the cake to cool completely before
- dusting with sifted icing sugar. Cut this rich cake into thin slices
- to serve.
- You can even bake this in a deep 18cm/7inch cake tin if you like.
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- VARIATION:
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- 30g/1oz butter, 1/3 cup flaked almonds, 1 quantity Butterkuchen mixture,
- 3 tablespoons grated bittersweet chocolate, icing sugar to finish
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- Butter the cake tin/bundt tin and sprinkle with the flaked almonds.
- Put in the refrigerator to set while preparing the cake mixture.
- Carefully spoon half the cake mixture into the tin/mould. Sprinkle
- the grated chocolate over the mixture in the tin (it should not go near
- the edges). Spoon in the remaining cake mixture and bake for 1 1/2
- hours or until cooked when tested with a skewer. Cool as above and
- sprinkle with icing sugar before serving.
- (Personally I would increase the amount of chocolate....)
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- Good luck!!
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