The recipes in the Real German Cuisine Challenge are from the German recipe book Die echte deutsche Küche and will be translated by me over the next couple of years.

Prasselkuchen (Crackling cake)

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Prasselkuchen (Crackling Cake)

Saxon lightning cake

Ingredients for 30 pieces:

  • 1 packet frozen puff pastry dough (In German: Blätterteig, 300 g/10.5 oz, 5 sheets)
  • 200 g (7 oz) flour + some flour for rolling out the dough
  • 100 g (3.5 oz) sugar
  • 125 g (4.4 oz) butter
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 2-3 T lemon juice
  • 100 g (3.5 oz) powdered sugar
  • 1 T melted vegetable fat (e.g., Crisco in the US, Palmin in Germany)

Preparation time: about 30 minutes

Per piece: 120 calories

Directions:

  1. Separate out the puff pastry sheets and let sit at room temperature for about 20 minutes.  In the meantime, put the flour, sugar, butter and pinch of salt in a bowl and knead to form streusel.
  2. For the glaze, add the lemon juice and powdered sugar to the melted and cooled vegetable fat.
  3. One after the other, take each sheet of puff pastry and roll out till thin on a floured surface, cut into approximately 6x10cm pieces (about 6 pieces from each sheet of puff pastry).  With a fork, pierce each piece several times then brush very lightly with some water.  Preheat the oven to 225° C (430° F).  Rinse a baking sheet in cold water.  Lay the pastry pieces on the baking sheet and sprinkle well with streusel.
  4. Bake in the middle of the oven until golden brown, about 15 minutes.  Allow the pieces to cool somewhat then brush with the citrus glaze.  The small sheet cake pieces are so crispy, that when one bites into them, they hear “crackling.”
  • The Prasselkuchen stores very well for some time in an airtight container.  It also freezes well.

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1 Vanessa November 16, 2009 at 9:50 pm

does the “T” mean tablespoon? or tasse?” please help! thanks.

2 Christina Geyer November 17, 2009 at 10:46 am

T stands for tablespoon. Let us know how it turns out!

3 Vanessa December 10, 2009 at 10:00 pm

Hi, yeah it came good. But I really have to limit the amount of lemon juice next time! Thanks.

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