Rose Cake
- 2 1/16 tablespoons fresh yeast or 7g/2 1/2 tsp, one packet dry instant yeast
- 1 cup milk
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- 4 cups flour
- 1 packet vanilla sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- lemon rind grated
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sugar dark, fine, Natural Molasses Sugar or powdered sugar
- 1 1/8 cups butter at room temperature
- Crumble the yeast in a cup of milk, add sugar.
- Mix together flour, vanilla sugar, salt and lemon zest. Add the eggs and the milk with yeast.
- Knead smooth, elastic dough, shape into a ball and leave for about 40 minutes in a warm place until doubled in volume.
- Meanwhile, for the cream, mix sugar and butter until foamy an smooth.
- With a rolling pin roll the dough very thinly on floured surface. Spread with cream and curl.
- Cut the roll into thick pieces of equal size.
- Place the "roses", close together, into the greased, round cake shape ( 24cm) or individually into the muffin mold.
- Leave cake rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes.
- Bake the cake in oven for 20 minutes at 160 C.
yeast, milk, sugar, flour, vanilla sugar, salt, lemon rind, eggs, sugar, butter
Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Rose-Cake-1669788 (may not work)