Polish yeast cake with fruit and streusel

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 Enjoy this recipe for a Polish yeast cake with fruit!


 

The cake is fluffy and only needs minimal amount of work. I got the recipe from my mother-in-law (thanks, Mum!). I used peaches, but strawberries, raspberries or plums will work just as well. The cake is decorated with streusel and icing made out of lime juice; everything together forms an amazing flavour combination.

Ingredients

Cake
  • 2 glasses (260 g) plain flour
  • 7 g instant yeast
  • 50 g unsalted butter
  • 40 g sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 100 ml milk
  • Peel of one lemon
  • 200 g peaches
Streusel
  • 50 g plain flour
  • 25 g unsalted butter
  • 25 g sugar

Icing

  • 2 tbsp lime juice
  • 50 g icing sugar

Method

  1. Melt the butter in milk. Only heat it up for long enough to melt the fat. Set aside to cool to body temperature.
  2. Add sugar to eggs and mix until sugar dissolves.
  3. SIft the flour into a bowl. Add yeast and eggs mixed with sugar. Start mixing with a mixer fitted with a kneading attachment.
  4. Add milk and butter in batches; wait until the liquid is fully incorporated into the dough before adding the next portion.
  5. Add grated lemon peel and knead with a mixer for about 5 minutes. Cover the dough and set it aside for 2 hours until the dough doubles in volume.
  6. Meanwhile, prepare the fruit. Remove the stones from the peaches and cut them into eights or quarters, depending on their size.
  7. Prepare the streusel. Add flour and sugar into a bowl. Add cold, cubed butter and mix it into the dry ingredients until the mixture feels like wet sand to the touch.
  8. Grease a baking tin and dust it with flour. I'm using a circular tin 20 cm in diameter.
  9. Put the dough in the tin and spread it out. Place sliced fruit on top and cover it with streusel. Set aside for 25 minutes.
  10. Bake in an oven preheated to 180oC, on a middle shelf, for 25-30 minutes. Take the cake out of the oven and leave it to cool.
  11. Combine icing suger with lime juice. If it is too thick, add a few drops of water. Decorate the cake with icing.
  12. Enjoy!

Approximate nutritional value

Slice (assuming 12 slices)
  • 203 kcal
  • Carbs: 31 g 
  • Fat: 7 g
  • Protein: 4 g
  • Fibre: 0 g



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