Usually there are not much knitting needles to look for in the kitchen. But we make an exception for this cake. Because only through the special utensil does the classic stirring cake become a super juicy taste experience.
Have you ever heard of a knitting needle cake? Not? Then it's high time! Because if you are looking for a juicy cake for Easter, you should save this recipe quickly.
The trick with this delicious pastries: with a knitting needle, holes are stabbed in the fully baked cake. As a result, he picks up the potions of the coffee egg liqueur mixture really well and becomes so incredibly tasty.
Don't worry, we have not forgotten the little ones. Immediately under the recipe for our egg liqueur knitting needle cake you will find a non-alcoholic variant.
So juicy: knitting needle cake with egg liqueur
Due to the knitting pinholes in the cake and the filled coffee egg liqueur mixture, the cake becomes incredibly juicy-you have to try that! Our tip: Since the cake has to pull through the potions a little, you can prepare it well a day earlier and then only round it off with an icing hood and fresh fruits.
Ingredients for a springform pan (Ø 28 cm):
For the dough
- 250 g soft butter
- 200 g of sugar
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- 2 TL Vanilleextrakt
- 6 eggs (size M)
- 250 g Mehl
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
To water
- 250 ml of coffee
- 3 tablespoons of sugar
- 2 electric backcaco
- 2 tablespoons of egg liqueur
Cream hood
- 400 g cold whipped cream
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 2 tablespoons of egg liqueur
To decorate (optional)
- Cocoa powder
- Rasper chockolade
- Coconut flock
- Fresh fruits (raspberries, strawberries, cherries ...)
This is how the preparation succeeds:
1. The oven on180 ° C top/bottom heatPreheat. The bottom of the springform pan (Buy right here at Amazon*) Line fats, floor and edges with baking paper.
2. Then stir the soft butter in a bowl with a blender creamy. Suitable, add sugar, vanilla sugar and extract and individually add the eggs while stirring. Mix after each ingredient until a homogeneous mass has arisen. Mix the flour and baking powder in a separate bowl and also stir under the dough.
3. Fill the finished dough into the springform pan and smooth out. For about40 minutesPush in the oven.
4. Immediately after baking, stab the cake several times with a thick knitting needle (alternatively it also works with chopsticks). Then loosen the cake from the springform pan and on a cake grille (there is here at Amazon*) let cool.
5. In the meantime, stir the hot coffee with sugar, cocoa and egg liqueur and pour the mixture into the previously stabbed holes in the cake. Let it go through it for at least an hour, but preferably overnight.
6. Beat the cream stiff with sugar and stir in the egg liqueur. Cool the egg liqueur cream until the cake is served. Just spread on the cake shortly before (or decorate it with a spray) and decorate with cocoa powder or fruits on request.
Alternative recipe: knitting needle cake without alcohol
So that the cake can really be enjoyed by everyone at the table, the recipe can be easily modified alcohol -free. Simply leave out the egg liqueur with the cream hood. And for the potions we also have two alternative recipes without alcohol for you:
With coconut milk
- 250 ml of coconut milk
- 3 tablespoons of cute condensed milk
- 2 electric backcaco
Mix the ingredients well and then pour into the previously stabbed holes in the cake. The cream hood also tops with roasted coconut flakes. The cake is a real poem, especially fresh from the fridge in summer.
Chocolate
- 200 g of dark bitters
- 2 electric coconut fat
For a chocolate -like variant, simply chop the couverture roughly, then melt with the coconut fat on a warm water bath. Pierce the cake several times with a knitting needle and remove the liquid couverture over the cake so that it can flow into the prepared holes.
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