John Myers
Tea Cake with Spirit
The perfect tea cake with spirit recipe with a picture and simple step-by-step instructions.
- 300 g Wheat flour type 405
- 250 g Butter, soft
- 125 g Sugar brown
- 100 g Powdered sugar
- 4 Pc. Eggs (M)
- 50 g Currants
- 100 g Raisins
- 50 g Lemon peel
- 75 g Almonds, blanched
- 1 Pc. Lemon; Abrasion
- 1 tsp Ground ginger
- 1 Pr Mace spice
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 4 tbsp Arrak or fruit brandy
- Glaze
- 100 g Powdered sugar
- 3 tbsp Arrack or lemon juice
- Grease and crumble 28 loaf pan, or line with baking paper.
- Let the raisins and currants steep in arrack or fruit brandy. Roughly chop the almonds.
- Mix flour with baking powder.
- Preheat the oven to 200 °.
- Separate eggs; Have the egg yolks ready.
- Beat egg whites to very stiff snow; then stir in the icing sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer.
- In a large bowl, stir the softened butter until frothy. Stir in sugar. Mix well.
- Gradually stir in the egg yolks. Likewise abrasion from the lemon peel, ginger and mace.
- Stir the flour, the soaked raisins and currants into the egg yolk / butter mixture with the arrack, the lemon peel and the chopped almonds.
- Add the egg white / powdered sugar mass and carefully fold in with the hand whisk .
- Pour the dough into the loaf pan and smooth it out.
- Bake the cake at a high temperature for a long time. My next attempt: 200 ° – 30 minutes _ | _ 180 ° – 60 minutes. >> If necessary, cover with aluminum foil from time to time. << Plus 10 minutes of rest in the closed oven. Then take them out of the oven, let them cool down and then turn them out onto a wire rack.
- For the icing, sift the icing sugar. Then add the 3 tablespoons of arrack or lemon juice and stir to a creamy, liquid mixture. So: either arrack or lemon juice; if necessary, it can be diluted drop by drop with tap water. The glaze is then applied to the cake with a tablespoon. And is allowed to drip off to the side. This is not a mishap, but a gladly accepted decorative effect.
- Recommendation 14: If you have the opportunity, you should actually use arrack as the ‘ghost’ for the cake. This results in a very unique taste. The brand is no longer in stock too often in retail stores. I found what I was looking for in a large supermarket: Batavia Arrac blend especially for baking in 100 ml bottles from Dr. Smoke. To the best of my knowledge, this brand is also offered on the Internet.
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