RASPBERRY CAKE WITH STREUSEL

Summer is over but before the wheather gets worse I want to share this reciepe that I found on holidays

Ingredients:

 

For the Cake:

 

• 1½ cups  flour
• 1½ tsp powder
• 10 tbp butter at room temperature (without salt)
• ⅔ cup sugar
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp grated lemon zest
• 1½ tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs, room temperature
• 4 cups of  raspberries, blueberries or any other berry

For the Streusel:

• ½ cup  flour
• ⅓ cup brown sugar
• 2 tbp granulated sugar
• ¼ tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 4 tbp butter whitout salt cut into small pieces

PREPARATION

 

For the Cake: 

 

1. Preheat the oven to 175°C and prepare a round cake pan of 22 cm (use vegetable paper or grease it with butter and cover it with flour)

 

2. Sieve the flour and the baking powder together in bowl and keep it. 

 

3.With an electric hand mixer (or with patience), beat together the butter, sugar, salt, and zest on med-high speed until it looks light and bright (3' aprox.)

 

4.Add in the vanilla extract and beat for 30 seconds more. 

 

5. Put in the eggs, one at a time but do not stop beating the dought. It may look it has broken but its normal, do not worry :)

 

6. On low speed add the dry ingredients (flour and powder) in two times and  beat again until you get an homogeneous mix. You should have now a very heavy batter.

 

7. Finally add your berries and fold them in with an spatula to do not smash them too much.

 

8. Put the dough in the mold and level the surface with the spatul. Cover the cake with streusel.

For the streusel:

1. With the hand mixer, stir the flour, the brown sugar, the white sugar, the cinnamon and the salt at low speed (otherwhise it will go out of the bowl). 

 

2. Add the butter cut into small pieces and beat for 10min until you can not see the butter any more. The final result should look like wet sand.

3. Take a small amount of streuel and squeeze it between your hands to create thin layers. Cover the surface of the cake with portions of streusel. Although now it looks awful, after baking it, it will improve!

 

4. The last step is to bake the cake until it is golden or a stick comes out clean (around 55 minutes)

 

5. Let the cake rest 10 min in the tin and after that transfer it to a rack and letit cold

Your delicious cake is ready!!