Whether for breakfast, Sunday brunch or with afternoon coffee – a piece of juicy cake is always delicious! Cheesecake, crumb cake from the tray, bee sting, etc. - there are so many cake classics that take us right back to our childhood with the first bite. But for us personally there is nothing better than a wonderfully buttery and super moist butter cake. After several baking attempts, we have finally found what is probably the best butter cake recipe and of course we would like to share it with you. Classic with almonds, without yeast or an aromatic apple butter cake - bring a piece of childhood to the coffee table and try our butter cake recipes today! What are you waiting for – read on and get to the oven!
Butter cake recipe with almonds, Grandma's style
After we alreadycrispy Smarties cookiesbaked, we would now like something classic and just as delicious. Wonderfully airy and full of flavor – this moist butter cake with almonds tastes just like grandma’s!
Yeast dough ingredients:
- 500 grams of wheat flour
- 200 ml milk, lukewarm
- 70 grams of sugar
- 100 grams butter, at room temperature
- 1 No
- 1 cube of fresh yeast
- 1 pack vanilla sugar or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- A pinch of salt
Topping:
- 150 grams cold butter, finely diced
- 200 grams of sliced almonds
- 70 grams of sugar
- 150 grams of cream
Preparation:
- Place the flour in a large bowl and crumble in the yeast.
- Add lukewarm milk and the remaining ingredients for the yeast dough and knead everything well with the dough hook of the mixer for 5-7 minutes.
- Cover and let the dough rise in a warm place for 1 hour.
- Lightly grease a large baking tray with butter and preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Knead the yeast dough well again with your hands on a floured work surface, roll it out to the size of a sheet and place it on the baking tray.
- Use a small spoon to make small holes in the dough and spread the butter into them.
- Sprinkle with almonds and sugar and bake for about 35-38 minutes.
- Drizzle the cream over the still hot cake and let it cool completely.
- And voilà – your moist butter cake with almonds is ready!
Quick and moist butter cake without yeast
If you bake often, then you know that the yeast dough takes a while. But if time is short and you want to conjure up something quickly, then this recipe for moist butter cake without yeast is just the thing for you!
Ingredients for the dough:
- 230 grams of wheat flour
- 200 grams of sugar
- 3 eggs, at room temperature
- 200 grams of whipped cream
- 1 pack vanilla sugar or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 pack of baking powder
- A pinch of salt
Mandel-Topping:
- 120 grams butter, softened
- 100 grams of sugar
- 200 grams of sliced almonds
- 70 ml milk
Preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Beat the whipped cream with a hand mixer for 4-5 minutes until stiff and gradually add the sugar and vanilla sugar.
- Add eggs one at a time and mix on low speed for 2-3 minutes.
- Fold in the flour and baking powder and knead everything into a smooth dough.
- Spread the dough on the baking tray and bake for 15-17 minutes.
- In the meantime, for the topping, put the butter in a small saucepan and melt over low heat.
- Add the sugar and milk and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved.
- Remove the pot from the heat and fold in the sliced almonds.
- Spread the topping on the cake and bake for another 13-15 minutes until golden brown.
- And your moist butter cake without yeast is ready!
Butter cake recipe for the Thermomix
And if you want, you can easily prepare the butter cake in the Thermomix! Just as delicious and beautifully buttery – the perfect accompaniment to afternoon coffee!
Ingredients for the base:
- 240 grams of wheat flour
- 150 grams of sugar
- 200 grams of cream
- 4 Owner
- 1 pack of vanilla sugar
- 1 pack of baking powder
- A pinch of salt
Topping:
- 200 Gramm Butter
- 200 grams of sliced almonds
- 30 ml milk
- 70 grams of sugar
Preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 175 degrees and line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Put all the ingredients for the dough into the mixing bowl and knead for 1 minute/speed setting 5.
- Spread the dough evenly over the base and bake for 10 minutes.
- Rinse the mixing bowl and add all the ingredients for the topping.
- Mix for 3 minutes/85 degrees/speed 1 and spread over the base.
- Bake for another 10-12 minutes and allow to cool completely.
- Enjoy!
Butter cake recipe with pudding
What makes a butter cake recipe even better? A creamy pudding filling, of course! We baked the cake over the weekend and everyone loved it.
Ingredients for the dough:
- 600 grams of wheat flour
- 100 grams of sugar
- 120 Gramm Butter
- 250 ml milk
- 1 No
- 1 pack of vanilla sugar
- 1 cube of fresh yeast
Pudding-Creme:
- 1 pack of vanilla pudding powder
- 450 ml milk
- 20 grams of sugar
TopXping:
- 100 grams of sliced almonds
- 60 grams butter, softened
- 100 grams of sugar
Preparation:
- Place wheat flour in a large bowl and make a well in the center.
- Dissolve the yeast in the lukewarm milk with a little sugar and add it to the bowl.
- Lightly dust the yeast mixture with flour and let it rise, covered, for 10-15 minutes.
- Add the remaining ingredients for the yeast dough and knead everything into a smooth dough.
- Cover and let rise in a warm place for 45-50 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and roll out a baking tray with baking paper.
- Knead the dough again and roll it out on a floured work surface to the size of a tray.
- Place on the baking tray and let rise for 10-15 minutes.
- In the meantime, prepare the pudding according to the package instructions.
- Melt butter and spread it over the cake.
- Spread the still warm pudding on the cake and sprinkle with sliced almonds and sugar.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown.
- And voilà – the butter cake recipe with pudding is so quick!
The best apple butter cake
Why not twoCake classiccombine and bake an aromatic apple butter cake? But we have to warn you - there is a risk of addiction!
Ingredients:
- 400 grams of wheat flour
- 200 grams butter, soft
- 200 ml milk, lukewarm
- 100 grams of sugar
- 25 grams of fresh yeast
- 2 Owner
- 650 grams apples, peeled and cut into thin slices
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 50 grams of honey
- 100 grams of sliced almonds
Preparation:
- Crumble the yeast into the milk and dissolve completely while stirring.
- Put the flour, 50 grams of butter, 70 grams of sugar, eggs and yeast mixture in a large bowl and knead well with the dough hook of the hand mixer for 5 minutes.
- Cover and let the dough rise in a warm place for 40 minutes.
- Meanwhile, stir the remaining butter, sugar and cinnamon in a bowl until smooth.
- Mix apple slices with lemon juice.
- Line a baking tray with baking paper and spread the dough on it. Let rise for another 20 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
- Cover the dough first with the cinnamon butter and then with the apples.
- For 20-25 minutes.
- Mix honey and almonds in a bowl and top the still hot cake with them.
- Enjoy!
- Here's a little tip - if you want, you can prepare the apple butter cake with crumbles.
