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🍰 Classic Butter Cake

372 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Warm the milk in a pot for about 1 minute until it is lukewarm.
  2. 2. Crumble the yeast into a small bowl.
  3. 3. Dissolve the yeast together with 1 tablespoon of sugar in the lukewarm milk.
  4. 4. Cover the bowl and let the yeast mixture rise in a warm place for approx. 15 minutes.
  5. 5. Mix 200 g sugar, flour, salt, and 100 g of butter cut into small pieces in a large bowl.
  6. 6. Pour the yeast milk and the eggs into the flour mixture.
  7. 7. Knead everything into a smooth dough.
  8. 8. Cover the bowl with a clean kitchen towel.
  9. 9. Let the dough rise in a warm place for approx. 1 hour until its volume has doubled.
  10. 10. Preheat the oven to 180 °C top/bottom heat.
  11. 11. Knead the dough briefly.
  12. 12. Roll out the dough on a floured work surface to the size of a baking sheet.
  13. 13. Place the dough on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
  14. 14. Press small indentations into the dough using a ladle or your fingers.
  15. 15. Cut the remaining butter into small flakes.
  16. 16. Distribute the butter flakes on the dough.
  17. 17. Sprinkle the cake with the remaining sugar and almonds.
  18. 18. Bake the cake for approx. 35 minutes in the preheated oven.
  19. 19. Take the cake out of the oven.
  20. 20. Pour cream over the hot cake.
  21. 21. Let the cake cool down.
  22. 22. Cut the cake into pieces and serve it.

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