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Danish Dream Cake

 

Drmmekage_fra_Brovst


1 cake - approx. 20 pieces

 

4 eggs

300 grams sugar (about 3 ½ cups)

250 g wheat flour (about 4 ¼ cups)

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon vanilla sugar

2 cups milk

50 g butter

 

Topping:

100 g butter

150 g desiccated coconut (about 4 ¼ cups)

225 g brown sugar (about 3 ¾ cups)

½ cup milk

 

Baking time:

Approximately 20 min. at 200°C/395˚F

 

Baking time with toppings:

About 5 min. at 225°C/340˚ƒ

 

Whisk eggs and sugar to they are light and fluffy. Mix flour, baking powder and vanilla sugar together. 

Add it gently into the dough sprinkled through a sieve. Heat milk and butter ( finger hot) and add it gently to the batter. 

Pour batter into a small baking pan lined with wax paper (about 5 x 22 x 30 cm) and bake in the middle of the oven.

Topping: Put butter, coconut, brown sugar and milk in a heavy-based sauce pan and bring to a boil while stirring. 

Take the pie out and turn up the oven to 225˚C/340˚F. Spread the topping over the cake and finish baking, still in the

middle of the oven.

Tip: You can whip eggs and sugar light and airy using a water bath - be careful that it does not get too hot - 

then the eggs will coagulate.

Source: Karoline's Kitchen

 
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