BERRY KUCHEN-I am very
excited about my first post on this
blog. I have a food blog in Spanish that
is almost three years old. It’s called “Recetas
y Condimentos”, but this is my new baby and it’s a real challenge for
me. Celebrating this new beginning I want to share with you a
kuchen recipe that’s very common in the southern part of Chile. It is a German
cake with fruit and cream and I hope you’ll enjoy it very much.
I made this
kuchen with a mix of blueberries, blackberries and raspberries, but if you want,
you can make it with only one kind.
For the cake :
¾ stick butter
2 eggs
½ cup sugar
1 ¼ cup flour
2 heaped tbsp of cornstarch
1 tsp
baking powder
Grated lemon rind
For the cream:
1 pound of berries
1 ½ cups of milk
2 tbsp of flour
4 tbsp of sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup of cream
Cream butter and sugar; beat in the eggs one at a time
until the mixture is fluffy.
Add dry ingredients sifted together, and the grated
lemon rind.
Bake in a pan that’s aprox. 11 inches in diameter, in
a moderate oven at 350F for 15 to 20 minutes.
Wash and dry the berries and mix with 2 tablespoons of
sugar. Set aside.
For the cream, stir 6 tbsp milk into the flour. Set
aside.
Warm the remaining milk with the sugar, before it
reaches a boiling point add the milk with the flour and cook for 1 minute.
Add the vanilla extract. Set aside.
Once it cools down add the cup of cream.
Spread the berries and the cream over the cake. Bake
for another 20 minutes.
Cool before serving.
Enjoy.
