Bienenstich

Recipe Cuisine: German
Recipe Category: German
Recipe Serves: 12

Recipes Ingredients:

PASTRY 4
ts Baking powder
3 1/2 oz (100g) cottage cheese, well
TOPPING:
Pressed out 1 3/4
oz To 2 1/2 (50-75g)butter
4 tb Milk 3
1/2 oz (100g) sugar
4 tb Oil
Packet vanillin sugar
2 tb Heaping of sugar
1 tb Milk
Pinch salt 3 1/2
oz (100g) almonds (blanched and
7 oz (200g) flour
Thinly sliced)

Recipe Instructions:

For the Pastry: rub the cottage cheese, if desired, through a fine sieve and mix with the milk, oil, Sugar and salt. Mix and sieve together the flour and the Baking powder and add to the mixed ingredients, a little at a time until slightly more than half has been used. Knead in the rest of the flour. Grease a round Cake tin with a removable rim, 10 in. (26cm) in diameter and roll out the pastry to fit the base. For the Topping: melt together the butter, Sugar and vanillin Sugar and add the milk; stir in the almonds and set aside to cool. If it should be too firm when cold, add a little milk. Spread evenly over the pastry. OVEN: moderately Hot Baking time: about 20 minutes Alternatively the Cake may be filled with buttercream, made from 1/2 packet Oetker Pudding Powder, Vanilla Flavour, 2 well heaped tbs. sugar, 1/2 pint cold Milk and 3 1/2 oz. (100g) butter. When the Cake is quite cold, cut it horizontally into two halves, Spread the filling on the bottom half and lay the other on top.