Do you know prophet cake?
This unusual recipe breaks all records
Created: 04/29/2022, 14:42
By: Anne Tessin
Prophetenkuchen is a specialty from Thuringia that you should bake quickly.
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Do you have fifteen minutes?
Then you can bake a delicious cake in just a few minutes and enjoy it right away.
Bake this prophet cake.
Are you getting tired of marble cake, cherry pie and all the other classics?
Then try a cake recipe that most people have probably never baked: Prophet cake.
This specialty from Thuringia is not only exceptional and delicious, but also stirred together and baked in record time.
You only need fifteen minutes until the
Prophetenkuchen, also known as Huckelkuchen, is
warm on your cake plate.
Recipe for Prophetenkuchen or Huckelkuchen: you need these ingredients for the lightning cake
Portion: | 1 cake |
|---|---|
Preparation time: | 5 minutes |
Baking time: | 5 - 8 minutes |
Difficulty level: | easy |
6 egg yolks
6 tbsp oil
100 grams of flour
1 pinch baking powder
6 tablespoons brown rum
150 g butter, melted
some vanilla sugar
some powdered sugar
some fat for the pan
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How to bake the Prophetenkuchen or Huckelkuchen
Preheat your
oven to 230 degrees top/bottom heat
and grease a baking tray - do not use baking paper.
Separate six eggs (this is how you can tell if they are really fresh) and beat the yolks with the hand mixer until they double in volume.
Then stir in the oil.
Sift the flour
with the baking powder over the egg and oil mixture - this step is important to avoid lumps forming - and mix well.
Now add the rum, beat the dough vigorously again and spread it on the greased baking sheet.
Then bake the prophet cake for 5 to 8 minutes
, depending on the oven power, until the cake starts to bubble.
But it must not turn brown.
Once the cake is out of the oven and has cooled a little, brush with the melted butter, sprinkle with vanilla sugar and then sift in the powdered sugar.
The
prophet
's cake is ready to be enjoyed.
It is not known why he is called that.
The term
Huckelkuchen
, on the other hand, is easy to understand.
The thinly spread dough forms waves during rapid baking and thus a hilly landscape on the baking sheet.
If you want to bake it in a loaf pan instead of on a baking sheet, you have to bake the
prophet
cake for 20 to 30 minutes.
(ante)
