German Butter Cake

By KDHarmon

Ingredients

• some butter for the baking tray
• 250 g heavy cream - 1 cup
• 4 eggs
• 200 g butter - 2 sticks
• 1 Package baking powder (.5oz)
• 1 package Dr Oetker Vanilla sugar (.32oz) - How to Make Vanilla Sugar -
• 4 tbsp milk
• 250 g sliced almonds - 8.8oz
• 1 pinch salt
• 400 g flour - 3 1/3 cups
• 300 g sugar - 1 1/2 cups (if you like the cake sweeter use 500g or 2 1/2 cups; the original recipe is using this amount, we find it a bit too sweet)

Details

Adapted from mybestgermanrecipes.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Grease a deeper baking tray, dust with flour. You also can use a high side sheet cake pan (see below) and layer it with parchment paper.

Mix heavy cream with half of the sugar and salt, mix very well by using a hand mixer.

Add eggs, sieved flour, 75 g soft butter, 1 vanilla sugar and baking powder, mix well.

Spread the dough on the baking tray and bake for about 12-15 min.

Melt remaining butter, add remaining sugar, milk and almonds, mix well.

Spread this mix on the cake and bake for another 20-30 min until the almonds show a golden color.

You can vary the recipe by adding sour cherries, apricots or peaches. Just place them into the dough or on the bottom of the baking tray.