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onto each rectangle and then roll up the
pieces of dough.
Make a plait out of the three pieces of
dough. Coat the surface of the plait with
a mixture of egg yolk and milk and then
sprinkle with flaked almonds.
• Time in the appliance: 55 minutes
• Shelf position: 2
6.8 Ring Cake
Ingredients for the base:
• 500 g flour
• 1 small packet dried yeast (8 g dry
yeast or 42 g fresh yeast)
• 80 g icing sugar
• 150 g butter
• 3 eggs
• 2 level teaspoons salt
• 150 ml milk
• 70 g raisins (soak in 20 ml of kirsch for
1 hour beforehand)
Ingredients for the finish:
• 50 g whole peeled almonds
Method:
Put flour, dried yeast, icing sugar, butter,
eggs, salt and milk into a mixing bowl
and knead to a smooth yeast dough.
Cover the dough in the bowl and leave
to rise for 1 hour.
Knead the soaked raisins into the dough
by hand.
Place the almonds individually into each
hollow in a greased and floured
gugelhupf tin.
Then shape the dough into a sausage
shape, place in the gugelhupf tin. Cover
and leave to rise again for 45 minutes.
• Time in the appliance: 60 minutes
• Shelf position: 1
6.9 Savarin Cake
Ingredients for the dough:
• 350 g flour
• 1 small packet dried yeast (8 g dry
yeast or 42 g fresh yeast)
• 75 g sugar
• 100 g butter
• 5 egg yolks
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 packet vanilla sugar (approximately
8 g)
• 125 ml milk
After baking:
• 375 ml water
• 200 g sugar
• 100 ml plum brandy or 100 ml orange
liqueur
Method:
Put flour, dried yeast, sugar, butter, egg
yolks, salt, vanilla sugar and milk into a
mixing bowl and knead to a smooth
yeast dough. Cover the dough in the
bowl and leave to rise for 1 hour. Then
place the dough in a greased ring-
shaped cake tin and cover and leave to
rise again for 45 minutes.
• Time in the appliance: 35 minutes
• Shelf position: 1
After baking:
Bring water and sugar to the boil and
leave to cool.
Add plum brandy or orange liqueur to
the sugar water and mix together.
When the cake has cooled, pierce it
several times with a wooden skewer and
then let the mixture soak into the cake
evenly.
6.10 Brownies
Ingredients:
• 250 g plain chocolate
• 250 g butter
• 375 g sugar
• 2 packet vanilla sugar (approximately
16 g)
• 1 pinch salt
• 5 tablespoons water
• 5 eggs
• 375 g walnuts
• 250 g flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
Method:
Break chocolate up into large pieces and
melt in a bain marie.
Cream together butter, sugar, vanilla
sugar, salt and water, add the eggs and
the melted chocolate.
Roughly chop the walnuts, mix with the
flour and baking powder and fold into
the chocolate mixture.
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