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Dutch Spiced Breakfast Cake (Ontbijtkoek)

Dutch Spiced Breakfast Cake (Ontbijtkoek)

A weekend Netherlands dessert. Ready in about 2 hours 9 minutes. Difficulty: more effort.

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 4 people +

Recipe makes 4

  • 9 oz self-rising flour Shopping tip: Self-rising flour (UK: self-raising).
  • 9 oz dark brown soft sugar
  • 9 oz milk
  • 4 sugar
  • 1 tbsp ginger
  • 1 tsp baking powder
Spices & seasonings (2): cardamom, salt
  • ½ tsp cardamom
  • Pinch salt

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

  1. Turn the oven on to 160˚C (320˚F) Line cake pan with parchment paper.

  2. Set aside.

  3. Mix all your dry ingredients together in a large bowl.

  4. Place the milk in a small pot.

  5. Heat it until it's almost boiling but not quite.

  6. Pour the milk slowly in the dry ingredients while whisking.

  7. Don't overmix.

  8. As soon as it is mixed to a smooth batter you pour it in the cake pan.

  9. Sprinkle the pearl sugar over the top.

  10. Bake it in the oven for around 1 hour.

  11. Check after around 50 minutes how the cake is progressing.

  12. If a cake tester comes out clean your cake it cooked.

  13. If not let it heat for a little longer.

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Recipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.