Fat cake

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 375 g flour
• ½ cube of yeast
• 1 egg(s)
• 70 g butter, melted
• 50 g sugar
• 180 ml milk, lukewarm
• 250 ml milk
• 80 g semolina
• 250 g quark
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar (or 1 tbsp vanilla sugar, homemade)
• 1 egg(s)
• 500 g fruit of your choice and season (also canned)
• 125 g butter
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 tbsp sugar
• ½ pack of pudding powder (vanilla)
• 125 ml sour cream
• 1 pinch of cinnamon
• Powdered sugar for dusting

Instructions

Working time approx. 40 minutes; Total time approx. 40 minutes

Recipe from Thuringia (Eichsfeld) from my husband’s grandmother

Prepare the yeast dough: Sift the flour into a bowl and make a well in the center. Crumble the yeast flakes into the well and mix with about 1/2 cup lukewarm milk, 2 teaspoons of sugar, and a little flour to form a pre-dough. Cover the yeast pre-dough and let it rise for about 15 minutes. Mix the yeast pre-dough with another amount of flour. Spread the remaining lukewarm milk, the remaining sugar, the melted butter, the eggs, and the salt over the edge of the flour and mix everything with all the flour and the yeast pre-dough until you have a smooth dough. Beat the dough until it bubbles. Let the yeast dough rise again for about 15 minutes and then roll it out on a greased baking sheet. For the topping, cook a semolina porridge from the milk and semolina, then let it cool (place plastic wrap directly on the porridge to prevent a skin from forming). Stir in the quark, vanilla sugar, and egg. Spread it on the base. Distribute the fruit on top. The entire cake doesn’t have to be covered with one type of fruit; you can also top each half with a different variety. For the icing, cream the butter with sugar until fluffy, then stir in the egg yolks, pudding mix, sour cream, and cinnamon. Spread evenly over the fruit. Allow the yeast dough to rise again while the topping, fruit, and icing are spread evenly over the base. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for about 60 minutes. Let cool and dust with icing sugar. While this cake is very time-consuming, it tastes truly delicious and isn’t too sweet.