Yeast Cake
Yeast Cake it’s soooo popular where I come from. My grandma was always making it and for this cake I’m always willing to come to her place. She is my master of doing it. But what’s but about it, she don’t have any recipe for it, I’ve tried several times to check and count how she does it, but it didn’t work, she just doing it, the way she feels it’s good. No worries! I won’t leave you without any recipe. This particular one I found inside one of the book that I was reading. And it’s just perfect! Today I’m making it with plums, but you can add whatever fruits you like.
Prep time: 1 hour Cook time: 1 hour Total time: 2 hours
Ingredients
400g of unsalted butter
4x egg yolks
2 gls of sugar
60g of fresh yeast
2 gls of milk
1, 250 kg of plain flour
fruits of your choice
Do believe it’s easy cake, it just need some time to “move”.
Prepare square big tin, lin it with baking paper.
First of all, make leaven for your dough. Take 200g of butter and melt it on low heat. Leave on a side. In the other pot (BIG one) warm up 2 glasses of milk with sugar, pinch of salt. When they are warm, but NOT boiling, you can add your fresh yeasts. Mix it gently. Add 2 tablespoon of flour and egg yolks. Mix it and leave it for around 15-20 mins, to let them work and double the size.
In the meantime you can make the crumble – mix 200g of butter, 1 glass of sugar and 1 glass of flour with pinch of salt, use your fingers to make a nice crumble, you don’t need to make a dough from it. And the put it to the fridge, it will be more crunchy thanks to that.
When your leaven double or triple the size, sift around 700g of flour on a table and make it look like ‘volcano’ with a whole in the middle. To that whole move your yeast mixture and start kneading dough. Dough is ready whenever it stopped sticking to the table.
Move it to baking tin and by using your hands line whole tray. Then add some of your favourite fruits and cover with crumble. Leave it to “move” again.
Preheat oven to 180C.
When oven is warm, bake your cake for another 1 hour. Until lovely gold. Leave it to cool. Remember fruits are extremely hot! Enjoy! :)
P.S. When using plums, put them inner side up and sprinkle with some flour and cinnamon. They will be yummy!
