Ingredients
- Dough for a Gugelhupf form of 1.5 liter content
- 17.6 oz flour
- 1 cube fresh yeast or 1 package dry yeast
- 4.22 oz sugar
- 4.22 floz milk
- 3 eggs
- 7 oz butter
- salt
- 1 organic lemon, some butter
- 5.28 oz raisins
- 3-4 tbsp brown rum
- 1.76 oz almond slices
- 2 tbsp butter, powdered sugar
Directions
- Sieve flour into a big bowl and in the middle make a mold where you will place the yeast (use instructions when using dry or instant yeast); crumb the fresh yeast.
- Mix it with some warm milk and some sugar.
- Cover it with a kitchen towel and let it rise for 15-20 minutes at a warm place.
- Add remaining sugar, eggs, soft butter, pinch of salt, grated peel of the lemon, and raisins: Pour boiling water of the raisins, add rum and let them soak briefly, drain them and dust them with flour, then add them to the dough.
- Knead dough very well; add as much milk is needed so you will get a smooth and soft dough.
- Knead it very hard so the dough makes bubbles.
- Let it rise again until volume has doubled.
- Grease the form very thoroughly and sprinkle almond slices on top, place the form in the fridge until dough has reached double volume.
- Fill dough into the form and let it rise again.
- Bake it on 200 C or 390 F for about 60 minutes.
- Get cake out of the form and place it on a baking grid, brush soft butter on top, it will melt right away then dust with powdered sugar.
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