St. Petersburg Muffin Cake
- 300 grams Flour
- 1/2 packages Baking powder
- 1/3 tsp Soda
- 1 Vanilla sugar
- 150 grams Sugar, can be increased to 200g
- 4 Eggs
- 200 grams Butter
- 150 grams Sour cream, fresh
- 70 grams Nuts
- 1 All sort of candied fruits: I had glazed cherries, dried cranberries, dried melon, dried papaya, dried pineapple
- First I cut into small peaces my candied fruits, u can add raisins if u like, but I usually stick to pineapple, papaya, cranberries....
- Then I took some nuts, put them in the microwave for less then a minute, gave them some time to cool down, and crushed with an ancient hand grater.
- U can actually fry the nuts, I just used the easier way.
- Butter was taken out of the fridge some time ago to be soft, but I forgot to do that, so also melted it a bit in microwave, I had one solid peace, so just some 40 seconds.
- It anyway started to melt a bit, but while I made things ready it hardened back.
- I cut it into small peaces for it to continue melting.
- P.s.
- Butter shouldn't be liquid.
- It's my little mistake.
- Sift the flour, with baking powder, soda and vanilla sugar.
- I do that to add fluffiness
- Divide the whites and the yolks ....
- In the mixer whip the whites with the half of the sugar.
- Make it a good thick foam.
- Put in the fridge.
- Then whip the yolks with the rest of sugar into creamy white texture, add budget, continue mixing and then add sour cream.
- The texture might seam a bit weird... Don't whip that for long, otherwise sour cream might loose water and it will become less creamy.
- Pick a bigger dish and carefully, better with a plastic or wooden spoon mix the whites with the yolk mix.
- Don't do it too fanatic, because bit by bit u should start adding flour, and carefully mix.
- U will hear bubbles of foam ...
- The dough should be quite sticky.
- I added all flour in 4 goes.
- Somewhere between flour I added the fruits and nuts.
- Smear the form with butter and sprinkle with breaking.
- Since the dough will be quite thick, u should put it carefully in the form.
- And don't try to make it super even, it will anyway melt evenly.
- And strange step, but even my granny did so, U should cut the dough...
- Yes, u got me right, just cut that raw dough.
- Oven must be heated up to 200C.
- When heated, the cake goes in.
- And just calm down.
- I put it on lower place.
- I watched it, so 25 min it was turned on lower heat, then some 10 on upper+lower, and some 5 minutes on upper for color.
- I checked it with a wooden stick, if it's ready.
- When out, don't keep it for long in form, so it doesn't absorb humidity.
flour, baking powder, soda, vanilla sugar, sugar, eggs, butter, sour cream, nuts, cherries
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/342333-st-petersburg-muffin-cake (may not work)