✺ it's all relative

my daughters' papa has family roots in Germany:

we spent many times in Hamburg eating delicious cakes

made by his cousins wife ~ Gudrun:

she kindly sent me this recipe for my collection:

translated for me by her daughter Natascha ~

 she said 

"it is called topfkuchen and is the easiest

most famous German cake recipe I think"

while making it I realised that I inherited my food mixer

from my late mother-in-law Trudi:

so it is quite fitting to be using it to make this cake:

*and it is indeed a topmixer, don't you just love the fancy flan on the box?

topfkuchen

you will need ....

4 eggs

250g softened butter

250g flour

250g sugar

½ teaspoon baking powder

a pinch of salt

heat your oven to 160°c/ gas 4:

grease and line a cake tin ~ any shape:

I used a loaf tin but I think they are often baked in a savarin

or bundt tin: 

in a bowl sift your flour and baking powder:

then stir in the sugar and salt:

add the eggs and butter and mix together until light:

* as children there was always a scuffle to be the one to lick these!

now you can add one of these flavours as suggested by Gudrun ....

the zest and juice of a lemon

and/or

100g raisins

or 

50g chocolate chips

I added choc chip as directed Libbie:

bake for an hour, testing with a skewer to make sure

it's cooked in the middle:

cool in the tin for a short while then turn onto a rack:

schmeckt gut as they say in Germany:

^_^

here's hoping she will next share her fabulous cake with 

custard and whole apples!