By Barbara Rolek. Eastern European Food Expert
This recipe for Polish buttermilk crumb cake or placek na malance z kruszonka (PLAHT-sek mahsh-LAHN-tseh z krroo-SHOHN-kah) comes from my cousin Krystyna Filipiak who resides in Turek, Belgium.
It's an easy coffee cake which has buttermilk within the batter and it is capped with fruit of preference (I love tart cherries) and sweet crumbs or streusel. A streusel is only a crumbly topping produced by mixing flour, sugar, butter, and often spices like cinnamon (while not within this recipe) until crumbly. This will make it sprinkled on coffee cakes, breads, muffins and cakes. The term streusel is German for "to sprinkle" in order to "strew."
Krystyna states a beginner prepare could make this dessert and she or he's right. For variety, Krystyna sometimes spreads two cans of poppy seed filling on the top from the fruit adopted through the crumb topping.
Ingredients
- Cake:
- 2 large room-temperature eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup room-temperature buttermilk
- 1/2 cup oil
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 quarts fruit like pitted cherries, berries or apple slices
- Crumb Topping:
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 4 ounces (1 stick) cold butter, reduce pieces
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Preparation
- Heat oven to 350 levels. Grease a 13x9-inch pan. Inside a large bowl, beat 2 large room-temperature eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 cup room-temperature buttermilk, and 1/2 cup oil until well combined.
- Inside a separate bowl, whisk together 3 cups cake flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Stir into egg mixture, mixing completely. Spread into prepared pan and top with fruit of preference.
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- Inside a medium bowl, mix 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour and 1/2 cup sugar together. Decline in 4 ounces cold butter pieces for cake dough until crumbs form. Scatter crumbs over fruit. Bake about 40 minutes or until cake is baked and crumbs are golden.
The significance of Coffee Cakes in Eastern European Entertaining
Among the prime rules of entertaining etiquette in Eastern Europe isn't to show away expected or unpredicted visitors, for instance, without providing them coffee, tea, vodka or brandy and some form of cake, otherwise a complete meal or sandwich.
That's why most housewives designed a simple coffee cake everyday or every second day to possess on hands in situation someone came by. These coffee cakes remained moist or might be rapidly reheated to create it well to simply-baked perfection.