Yeast-free curd lemon-lavender cake with cherries and dried apricots

Yeast-free curd lemon-lavender cake with cherries and dried apricots

Category: Bakery products

Ingredients
Zest and juice of one lemon	1 PC.
Draining. room temperature oil	100 g
Cottage cheese	150 gr.
Vanilla sugar (I have vanilla paste)	2 tsp
White sugar	100 g
Brown sugar	100 g
Eggs	3 large
Flour (of which I replaced 50 gr. With almond)	380 gr.
Baking powder	1.5 tsp.
Milk	100 g
Cognac (rum, liqueur)	10 gr.
Ground lavender flowers	1.5 tbsp. l.
Salt	pinch
Cardamom, star anise	to taste and desire
Candied fruits, dried fruits (I have cherries and dried apricots)	2 - 3 tbsp. l.

Cooking method

Remove the zest from the lemon and squeeze the juice. Mix lemon juice with milk and let stand for a while (there will be buttermilk).

Sift flour and mix with baking powder and spices.

We divide the eggs into whites and yolks.

We wash the candied fruits, dry, if necessary - cut and mix with 1.5 tbsp. l. flour from the total amount of the recipe.

We turn on the oven and heat it to 160 - 170 degrees.

Whisk soft butter well with 150 gr. sugar (another 50 grams of white sugar is left for proteins, which we beat separately with this sugar and salt).

Continuing to beat, add: vanilla; lemon zest; cognac; one at a time, beating well after adding each, the yolks; cottage cheese.

Then, alternately at low speed of the mixer, add part of the flour - half the buttermilk (milk with lemon juice) - part of the flour - half the buttermilk - the rest of the flour. Then turn off the mixer and manually carefully introduce the whipped proteins, mix well with a spatula. Then - candied fruits.

Put the finished dough into molds and bake. I had 3 paper cakes with a diameter of 9 cm. We place the dough in the molds 2/3 of the height, because it rises well) I baked at 170 degrees for about an hour, but you look in your oven. Here's what happened: for clarity, I specially freed one cake from the mold)

And here I will share a recipe for an absolutely amazing, in my opinion, glaze, which became a discovery for me this year)) Well, judge for yourself: it is prepared in less than 5 minutes, very tasty, without eggs, wonderful gloss, freezes perfectly, but not crumbles and does not fall off the cake - I don't know what could be better, honestly))
So, the glaze recipe: mix condensed and powdered milk to the desired thickness (by eye) - that's it!)))

The dish is designed for

3 Easter cakes weighing about 450 gr.

Cooking program:

Mixer, oven

Vikus, thank you, great recipe! And the glaze is beyond praise. I have just stocks of milk powder. I will definitely make such icing for Easter cake.

[Vika]

Vika, an interesting recipe only for lavender flowers is not present and it is not foreseen whether they can be replaced with something, yet they are in the recipe 1.5 tbsp. l., it means they give something to the dough

Flour (of which I replaced 50 gr. With almond)

What does the addition of almond flour to wheat give, additional flavor or something else
Special thanks for the glaze I will definitely use the advice

Vika, thanks for the recipe, it's good that they posted it separately, I would get lost in the topic, take it away.

only lavender flowers are not and are not expected

Tan, for the future, if you suddenly want to, flowers are sold in many places.
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[Tatyana]

Girls, thank you very much for your attention to the recipe))

there are no lavender flowers and it is not expected whether they can be replaced with something, yet they are in the recipe 1.5 tbsp. l., it means they give something to the dough

Tatyana, lavender flowers flavor the dough and nothing else)) Therefore, accordingly, they can be replaced with any other flavor that you prefer, or you can completely calmly do without them at all. I just love lavender very much, and I made the recipe for myself, but without lavender it is also quite possible.

What does the addition of almond flour to wheat give, additional flavor or something else

Almond flour gives a nutty flavor.

flowers are sold in many places.

Yes, I agree, now there is no difficulty in acquiring them, but it only makes sense if you love lavender. There are people who don't like her))

[Galina]

Galina, Vika, girls thanks for the advice

now there is no difficulty in acquiring them, but it only makes sense if you love lavender. There are people who don't like her))

I love the scent of lavender before I brought it from the Crimea, bought a fresh bouquet, while driving to the house, it managed to dry out on the top shelf, from a small bouquet the scent was on the whole car. Unfortunately, I haven't been in Crimea for 1000 years ... because yeast-free has not yet baked, but so far without lavender.

I love the scent of lavender

Oh, well, then you certainly need to get flowers)) Their small weight is enough for a very long time, despite the fact that we are big fans of lavender and use it often, we even drink coffee with it))

And I will definitely try the cake, because I haven't baked yeast-free yet, but so far without lavender.

Try it, I sincerely hope that the recipe will not disappoint)) Without lavender it will also be very good))

Thanks, baked! Delicious even without lavender. The roofs just broke. Thanks for the recipe

The roofs just broke.

I think there is nothing wrong with this, this is essentially a muffin dough, for him this is normal) Thank you for trusting the recipe, I am very glad that it was delicious)))