Breton Butter Cake
From crabhappychick 17 years ago
- 50 minutes to make
- Serves 8
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.
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature shopping list
- 1 cup sugar shopping list
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract shopping list
- 6 egg yolks, large shopping list
- 2 3/4 cups flour shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1 whole egg, lightly beaten shopping list
How to make it
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Transfer to a wire rack to cool slightly. Remove cake from pan and slice will warm. Serve with fresh strawberries
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Reviewed by 7 people-
great recipe thanks
momo_55grandma
in Mountianview loved it
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Butter and all that vanilla!! Love it!
morninlite
in Kalamazoo loved it
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Very nice and sounds delicious. 5 from me!
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in North Hollywood loved it
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