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Breton Butter Cake Recipe


Breton Butter Cake Recipe
Jean-Marc's Chatelier is a wonderful authentic French bakery here in Pittsburgh. Fantastic pastries. One of their best offerings is a simple cake that is lush with butter. Perfect with berries for an extravagent shortcake.

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Ingredients
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 6 egg yolks, large
  • 2 3/4 cups flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 whole egg, lightly beaten

Directions
  1. Heat oven to 350. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and yolks one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour and salt; beat just until combined. Do not overmix.
  2. Transfer batter to 9" tart pan with removable bottom; spread batter and smooth top. If necessary chill batter 10 minutes before smoothing.) Place pan in refrigerator 15 minutes.
  3. Remove from fridge, brush top with beatten egg and mark a criss-cross pattern with a fork. Brush again with egg. Bake until cake is deep golden brown and edges pull away from sides of pan, about 50 minutes.
  4. Transfer to a wire rack to cool slightly. Remove cake from pan and slice will warm. Serve with fresh strawberries

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Comments


Great recipe thanks


Butter and all that vanilla!! Love it!


Very nice and sounds delicious. 5 from me!
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Wow---sounds rich and delish! :) Thank you! :)
~Melinda


Ooooh la la!! Magnifique! Thanks! :)


Nice change from biscuits as the base, but I may not want to share now!


Yummmmm-Ohhhhhh ;) You've got my 5!!!


Yes! I have been looking for a great butter cake recipe and it looks like I may have found it! Hats off to you!


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