Quince cake or cake with crunchy crust
Time
Preparation time: 1 hr. 10 min.
Cooking or baking time: 35 min.
Total preparation time: 1 hr. 45 min.
Here for all quince fans a great recipe for a cake or a cake, at will, both delicious! Although the preparation is a bit time consuming, but the effort really worth it!
The ingredients are enough for a Springform ø 26-28 cm, for a baking sheet simply take twice the amount of ingredients for toppings and dough, the crumble amount is sufficient for a medium baking sheet.
ingredients
For covering
- 3 large quinces (about 800 g)
- 50 g of sugar
- 120 ml of water
- Juice of ½ lemon
For the dough
- 175 g of butter
- 125 g of sugar
- 1 pck of vanilla sugar
- 3 eggs
- 175 g cake flour (Type 550)
- 40 g of cornstarch
- ½ pck of baking soda
- 1 pinch of salt
For the crumble
- 100 g of butter
- 50 g of sugar
- 50 g of honey
- 2 tablespoons cream
- 100 g sunflower seeds
- 50 g hazelnuts or walnuts (roughly chopped)
- 50 g almond slivers
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 pinch of cinnamon, cloves and cardamom as desired
preparation
- First preheat the oven to 200 degrees (top / bottom heat).
- For the topping, the quinces are washed, quartered, the core box is removed, peeled and then the quarters are cut into even columns (I have divided each quarter into 4 columns).
- In a saucepan, caramelize 50 g of sugar and sauté with 120 ml of water, then add the lemon juice, add the quince slices and simmer for about 8 minutes over a moderate heat (they should not be too soft!). Then drain on a sieve and let cool.
- For the dough, stir the room-warm butter with the sugar and vanilla sugar until frothy, add the 2 eggs one after the other and continue stirring. Mix the flour with cornstarch and baking powder and sift, add one-third of the amount to the butter-egg mixture, then beat the third egg underneath and then add the rest of the flour mixture and a pinch of salt. Then spread the batter evenly on the baking paper bottom of the Springform pan and evenly distribute the cooled quince slices.
- Lightly fry the sunflower seeds, nuts and almonds for the crumble in a pan. Boil butter, sugar, honey and cream in a pot and simmer for about 5 minutes, then stir in the sunflower seed-nut-almond mixture. Spread this crumble mixture on the quince.
- Now it finally goes into the preheated oven and after 30-35 minutes this wonderful baking is completed.
- After cooling, then just cut into pieces and enjoy - very, very delicious with some whipped cream!
tip
Of course you can also bake this cake with apples or pears, but they do not have to be pre-cooked.
I wish a pretty good enjoyment !!