St. Petersburg Muffin Cake

Name: St. Petersburg Muffin Cake
Total time: 5400 s
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 300 grams Flour; 1/2 packages Baking powder; 1/3 tsp Soda; 1 Vanilla sugar; 150 grams Sugar, can be increased to 200g; 4 Eggs; 200 grams Butter; 150 grams Sour cream, fresh; 70 grams Nuts; 1 All sort of candied fruits: I had glazed cherries, dried cranberries, dried melon, dried papaya, dried pineapple

Jelena Krivenko @cook_2844618

St. Petersburg Muffin Cake

Jelena Krivenko @cook_2844618

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Ingredients

1 hour 30 mins

10 servings

300 gramsFlour
1/2 packagesBaking powder
1/3 tspSoda
1Vanilla sugar
150 gramsSugar, can be increased to 200g
4Eggs
200 gramsButter
150 gramsSour cream, fresh
70 gramsNuts
1All sort of candied fruits: I had glazed cherries, dried cranberries, dried melon, dried papaya, dried pineapple

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Steps

1 hour 30 mins

1

First I cut into small peaces my candied fruits, u can add raisins if u like, but I usually stick to pineapple, papaya, cranberries....
2

Then I took some nuts, put them in the microwave for less then a minute, gave them some time to cool down, and crushed with an ancient hand grater. U can actually fry the nuts, I just used the easier way.
3

Butter was taken out of the fridge some time ago to be soft, but I forgot to do that, so also melted it a bit in microwave, I had one solid peace, so just some 40 seconds. It anyway started to melt a bit, but while I made things ready it hardened back. I cut it into small peaces for it to continue melting. P.s. Butter shouldn't be liquid. It's my little mistake.
4

Sift the flour, with baking powder, soda and vanilla sugar. I do that to add fluffiness
5

Divide the whites and the yolks .... In the mixer whip the whites with the half of the sugar. Make it a good thick foam. Put in the fridge.
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Then whip the yolks with the rest of sugar into creamy white texture, add budget, continue mixing and then add sour cream. The texture might seam a bit weird... Don't whip that for long, otherwise sour cream might loose water and it will become less creamy.
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Pick a bigger dish and carefully, better with a plastic or wooden spoon mix the whites with the yolk mix. Don't do it too fanatic, because bit by bit u should start adding flour, and carefully mix. U will hear bubbles of foam ... The dough should be quite sticky. I added all flour in 4 goes. Somewhere between flour I added the fruits and nuts.
8

Smear the form with butter and sprinkle with breaking. Since the dough will be quite thick, u should put it carefully in the form. And don't try to make it super even, it will anyway melt evenly. And strange step, but even my granny did so, U should cut the dough... Yes, u got me right, just cut that raw dough.
9

Oven must be heated up to 200C. When heated, the cake goes in. And just calm down. I put it on lower place. I watched it, so 25 min it was turned on lower heat, then some 10 on upper+lower, and some 5 minutes on upper for color.
10

I checked it with a wooden stick, if it's ready. When out, don't keep it for long in form, so it doesn't absorb humidity.