For the first time in quite a while I have been baking again. We didn't have anything at home for just eating in between meals (snaaien), like cookies, chips etc. We had a busy weekend so we forgot to buy. There is this recipe for a real oldfashioned Dutch treat, called "boterkoek" or in English "buttercake", with which I have had quite some success already in the past. I must tell you in advance that it is VERY fat, since, as the name already reveals, there is a lot of butter used.
But I just thought I wanted to share this with you.
Here's what you need:
baking tin of 24 cm diameter
250 gr. (8 oz) flour
200 gr. (6 3/4 oz) white caster sugar (fine grain)
pinch of salt
225 gr. (7 1/2 oz) cold butter
1 table spoon coffee cream (optional)
1) preheat the oven at 250 degrees celsius (480 degrees fahrenheit)
2) Sieve the flour with the sugar and the salt in a mixing bowl
3) Cut the butter with 2 knives through the flour-sugar mixture in very small pieces.
Knead all ingredients quickly into a ball
4) Put the ball into the baking tin and press it into the tin, till you have a layer which has about the same thickness everywhere.
You can make a pattern with a fork or a knife at the surface, and spread the top with the coffee cream (optional).
5) Put the tinin the middle of the oven, and bake it till golden brown in approximately 15 - 20 minutes.
6) Let the cake cool down in the tin and cut it right before serving.
One tip, when you get it out of the oven, don't be discouraged if you see the the cake still be liquid or soft or anything. It will harden when it cools down.
And I used grained sugar, and didn't use the coffee cream, so yours could look better (less grainy) than mine. But it's the taste that matters, not the looks.
Enjoy, and let me know what you think, ok? And send some pictures of the result if you want.
Maybe I will post some more recipes in the future. Keep checking regularly.
Eet smakelijk (Enjoy your cake).
But I just thought I wanted to share this with you.
Here's what you need:
baking tin of 24 cm diameter
250 gr. (8 oz) flour
200 gr. (6 3/4 oz) white caster sugar (fine grain)
pinch of salt
225 gr. (7 1/2 oz) cold butter
1 table spoon coffee cream (optional)
1) preheat the oven at 250 degrees celsius (480 degrees fahrenheit)
2) Sieve the flour with the sugar and the salt in a mixing bowl
3) Cut the butter with 2 knives through the flour-sugar mixture in very small pieces.
Knead all ingredients quickly into a ball
4) Put the ball into the baking tin and press it into the tin, till you have a layer which has about the same thickness everywhere.
You can make a pattern with a fork or a knife at the surface, and spread the top with the coffee cream (optional).
5) Put the tinin the middle of the oven, and bake it till golden brown in approximately 15 - 20 minutes.
6) Let the cake cool down in the tin and cut it right before serving.
One tip, when you get it out of the oven, don't be discouraged if you see the the cake still be liquid or soft or anything. It will harden when it cools down.
And I used grained sugar, and didn't use the coffee cream, so yours could look better (less grainy) than mine. But it's the taste that matters, not the looks.
Enjoy, and let me know what you think, ok? And send some pictures of the result if you want.
Maybe I will post some more recipes in the future. Keep checking regularly.
Eet smakelijk (Enjoy your cake).
1 comment:
Indeed it tastes really good! But I guess I need to walk up and down of stairs for... hmmmm..... 200 times?
YuMei
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