Weekend cooking: Super fast and easy cake
I found this wonderful baking book in the library the other day. As you might know I am neither a talented nor a passionate baker, but this book brought my baking spirit to (a theoretical) life. I must admit, I haven’t baked anything out of it yet, but I am planning to copy quite a few recipes. The book covers simple cakes to complicated, multi layered masterpieces and makes your mouth water. 
It is called “Anniks göttliche Kuchen” (Annik’s divine cakes). Annik Wecker is the wife of a well-known German musician and a baker who creates and produces cakes for bakeries and private customers.
As we are all pressed for time and busy with all sorts of things at home and at work I chose to introduce you to the simplest and fastest cake Annik knows. It is called “Puff pastry tarte with fruit” and looks and sounds delicious.
Puff pastry tarte with fruit
Ingredients
- 1 pack of puff pastry from the cooling rack of your grocery store (270g)
- 1 egg
- 40g grated almonds
- 500g fruit, cut into pieces or slices according to your taste
- 80g sugar
Heat the oven to 200C. Roll the pastry onto your baking tray. Cut off a 1cm wide strip all around. Whisk an egg and brush it onto the edge. Put the cut off strips on top of the edge and brush with egg as well.
Cover the pastry inside with almonds evenly and place the fruit on top. Sprinkle the sugar on top of the fruit and the edge. Bake 25-30 minutes.
Annik says it is easy to vary, make it round or cornered or in small pieces. You can use almost any sort of fruit you like. Sometimes she sprinkles crumbled amarettini on top of the fruit (plus the sugar) or a mix of sugar and cinnamon or coconut flakes or little slices of almonds…. the possibilities are endless.
Enjoy!
Weekend Cooking is hosted by Beth Fish Reads
Wow that is easy to make and with seasonally fresh fruit how could lose? I usually have puff pastry in my freezer, so it’d be great to make in a pinch. So Kuchen is cake in German? I’ve heard the term many times and thought it meant a certain type of baked dessert, not “cake” in general.
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Yes, “Kuchen” ist the general word for cake.
I consider myself more than a novice, but less than accomplished, baker — but for some reason, I always end up fighting with my puff pastry sheets
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They can be a little tricky, but I always buy the foolproof kind with baking paper rolled up right with them. Not much can happen with that.
This recipe sounds so delicious with many ways to vary it depending upon the fruit on hand. I love, especially, how simple it is to prepare. I keep puff pastry in my freezer at all times!
Mmmm. I haven’t ever made anything with puff pastry, but I’d love to make that cake!
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I love puff pastry. It always tastes like it came from some fancy bakery. This recipe looks easy – the kind I like.
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