Austrian Pumpkin Seed Cake
From kutadkubilik 14 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 8
Styria (Steiermark) in s a region of Austria, where pumpkins grow and where people have many creative ideas how to use pumpkin seeds. I guess they must be all very healthy cause pumpkin seeds are helpful in combating many diseases. Read more So Styrians not only cook pumpkin soup but also bake bake pumpkin seed cakes and cookies. Here is a great example: Kürbiskernkuchen, pumpkin seed cake. See less
Ingredients
- 1 cup pumpkin seeds shopping list
- 1 cup flour(*) shopping list
- 4 eggs shopping list
- 1/2 cup icing sugar shopping list
- 1/4 cup sugar (or vanilla sugar) shopping list
- 1 tablespoon rum shopping list
- a pinch of cinnamon shopping list
- 1 tablespoon baking powder shopping list
- 1 cup white cuverture (or simply white chocolate) shopping list
- 3 tbspoon coconut fat (copha) shopping list
- (optionally: 1 tablespoon pumpkin seed oil) shopping list
How to make it
- 1. Beat yolks with sugar and whites with icing sugar. Grind pumpkin seeds (possibly in coffee grinder)
- 2. Sieve flour with baking powder, cinnamon and ground seeds. Add rum. Whisk yolks with icing sugar and whites with crystal sugar (vanilla sugar). Add yolks to the flour, stir well (**) and add well beaten egg whites. bake about 30 minutes (or until the surface of the cake becomes golden) in 350 oven.
- 3. Prepare the icing: melt chocolate with copha (and pumpkin seed oil) in a double boiler. When icing is homogeneous and still warm, while the cake is already cool, you can start covering thr cake with a spatula. Don't be afraid of oil in the icing - it will only give a green colour to the icing.
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Reviewed by 4 people-
Great post, I love the cake recipes you share! I put that into my "International Baking " group on group recipes - a group for all baked goods from everywhere and anywhere in the world!
midgelet
in Whereabouts loved it
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sounds delicouc luv pumpkin seeds thanks bunches
momo_55grandma
in Mountianview loved it
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what an unusual cake.. love the ground up pumpkin seeds in it...five forks and I flaged it a interesting and unusual..
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