Autumnal marzipan fruit cake

AUTHOR
Kate Willis
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 2
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 24
  • 250 ml Milk
  • 100 g Butter
  • 1 cube (42 g) Yeast
  • 500 g Flour
  • 100 g + 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 100 g Marzipan raw mass
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 3 rosy-cheeked apples
  • 3 ripe pears
  • 7-10 Tbsp Juice of 1 lemon
  • 400 g blue grapes
  • 100 g fresh cranberries
  • 3-4 Tbsp Apricot Jam
  • 50 g Amarettini
  • 7-10 Tbsp Flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp Grease

Directions

  1. 1

    Warm 100 ml of milk lukewarm. Melt the butter and let it cool down lukewarm. Crumble yeast in the lukewarm milk and stir with a whisk until the yeast has dissolved. Put flour and 100 g sugar in a bowl and make a depression in the middle. Add the yeast milk, mix with some flour from the rim, then cover with some flour and let it rise for about 15 minutes. Cut marzipan into small cubes.

  2. 2

    Add 150 ml milk, salt, vanillin sugar, egg, marzipan and melted butter and knead to a smooth dough with the dough hooks of the hand mixer. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes. Wash apples and pears, grate dry. Peel the pears. Quarter apples and pears, remove core. Cut quarters into thin slices and sprinkle with lemon juice. Knead the dough again with your hands on the floured work surface. Grease the fat pan of the oven (32 x 39 cm). Roll out the dough evenly. Leave to rise in a warm place for another 15 minutes. Wash the grapes and cranberries and drain well. Pluck the grapes from the stems.

  3. 3

    Knead the dough again with your hands on the floured work surface. Grease the fat pan of the oven (32 x 39 cm). Roll out the dough evenly. Leave to rise in a warm place for another 15 minutes. Wash the grapes and cranberries and drain well. Pluck the grapes from the stems. Spread fruit on the cake and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of sugar. Bake the cake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for 25-35 minutes. Heat the jam and pass through a sieve. Remove the cake from the oven, let it cool down a little, then brush with jam and let it cool down on a cake rack. Coarsely crumble Amarettinis and sprinkle over the cake. Serve the cake lukewarm or cold

  4. 4

    Spread fruit on the cake and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of sugar. Bake the cake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for 25-35 minutes. Heat the jam and pass through a sieve. Remove the cake from the oven, let it cool down a little, then brush with jam and let it cool down on a cake rack. Coarsely crumble Amarettinis and sprinkle over the cake. Serve the cake lukewarm or cold

  5. 5

    1 1/2 hours waiting time

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
200 kcal
CARBS
33 g
FATS
6 g
PROTEINS
4 g