Swedish Visiting Cake

[viklikesfic]

My breakfast this morning, brought to you by Dorie Greenspan's Baking from My Home to Yours:





Preheat to 350 and butter small cast iron skillet (in the 6-9" range). Melt and cool a stick o' butter. Pour cup of sugar in medium bowl. Grate in the zest of a lemon and rub together with fingers to aromatise sugar. Whisk two eggs in one at a time. Whisk in 1/2 tsp almond extract and 1 tsp vanilla (both optional) and 1/4 tsp salt. Fold in a cup of flour with spatula. Fold in the butter. Pour into skillet and smooth top. Scatter bout a 1/4 cup almonds over top and sprinkle with a pinch of sugar. Bake 25-30 min or until golden and crispy looking. Cool 5 min, then loosen edges and slice, serve warm.

Comments

An oven-baked pancake?

[wendelah1]

That looks really good. I have a variation that uses apples, and maybe not quite so much butter. I'll try to find it.

Re: An oven-baked pancake?

[viklikesfic]

Hehe, it's hard to tell from my picture but the cake is two or three inches high. You get a nice dense, moist yellow crumb and then that crisping action you can see around the edges from the cast iron. I actually found that the bottom doesn't get as terribly dark as it does with thinner pans.