Serveral different varieties of Zwetschgendatschi recipes are popular in Germany and Austria. We are baking our personal favorite today. The Streusel-Zwetschgenkuchen made from a nice yeast dough.
Here is what you need for our original German & Austrian Mehlspeise, called "Zwetschgendatschi":
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INGREDIENTS
For the yeast dough:
- 500 gram (17.63 oz) all purpose flour
- 125 milliliters (4.24 fl oz) milk
- 85 gram (2.99 oz) unsalted butter (melted, luke warm)
- 70 gram (2.47 oz) granulated sugar
- 2 eggs (medium size)
- 7 gram (1 package) dry yeast
- lemon zest of 1/2 lemon
For the filling:
- 2000 gram (4.4 lbs) Italian plums aka prune plums
- 50 gram (1.76 oz) unsalted butter (melted, luke warm)
For the Streusel
- 200 gram (7.05 oz) all purpose flour
- 150 gram (5.29 oz) granulated sugar
- 150 gram (5.29 oz) unsalted butter (melted, hot)
- 7 gram (0.25 oz) ground cinnamon
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PREPARATION
Prepare the dough:
- Melt butter and let cool.
- Put all the ingredients for the dough into a mixing bowl of a stand mixer.
- Turn on the stand mixer on lowest speed for about 2 minutes.
- Now turn the stand mixer on the highest speed for about 8 minutes until the dough gets a smooth surface and removes itself from the mixing bowl.
- Cover the mixing bowl with a dish cloth and let rest at a warm place for about 30 minutes.
Prepare the filling:
- Wash the plums under hot water.
- Cut plums into halves.
- Remove the pits, the stems and the annoying stickers from the peel.
- Cut plum halves into 1cm (3/8 inch) thick slices.
- Melt butter and let cool.
Prepare the crumbs (Streusel):
- Sieve flour into a bowl.
- Add granulated sugar and ground cinnamon to the bowl and mix it (just stir it in with a spoon or so).
- Now melt butter and let the hot butter drip over the flour-sugar-cinnamon mix and stir with a FORK. But not too much. This way you get the little crumbs.
Make the pie:
- Preheat the convection oven to 380 Farenheit. (If you don't have a convection oven, change the apartment or set a normal oven to 390 Farenheit.)
- Take the dough out of the bowl and place on counter top.
- Cover the counter top with flour and roll out the dough a little bit.
- Now take a non-stick baking sheet liner that fits a "half sheet pan" (18 x 13 inch) and put the dough on the liner.
- Roll out the dough on the liner so that it will cover the complete liner.
- Pull the liner with the dough on it onto the half sheet pan and press the dough against the walls of the baking pan.
- Take the melted butter, the 50 gram listed in "for the filling", and brush the dough with it.
- Take the plum slices and cover the dough with the plums. Set them tightly together.
- Take the crumbs and with your hand crumble them over the plums.
- Put the cake into the preheated oven for about 20 - 30 minutes. But please trust your eyes, don't rely on any numbers regarding temperature or time mentioned here, and bake the cake until it has got a golden brown crust on the sides.
- Remove from the oven and immediately dust with ground cinnamon and powdered sugar. But only a LITTLE BIT. Not too much!
- Dust with powdered sugar when serving.
An Guadn! Bavarian for "Enjoy your meal".
And if you don't have a farmers market around where you get fresh plums or if you just don't have the time to bake this delicous German cake, we bake it in our little bakery for you.
For your birthday party, office catering or even if you have a little cafe where you would like to offer Zwetschgendatschi with your delicious coffee, contact the 2 PENZ and we make you a quote for local NYC delivery!
Beat yeast dough for Zwetschgendatschi until it becomes smooth |
Cut italian plums into halves and remove the pit |
Cut plums into wedges |
Melt butter for the filling and for the crumbs |
Let melted butter drip into flour-sugar-cinnamon mix and stir with fork |
Stir with fork until you have nice crumbs for the cake |
Remove the yeast dough for our plum cake from the bowl |
Roll out the dough on counter top |
Pull the baking sheet liner with the dough onto the baking sheet |
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Brush dough with melted butter |
Put Plum wedges on the dough, add crumbs and bake the plum cake |
Dust Zwetschgenfleck with ground cinnamon and powdered sugar |
Enjoy your home made Zwetschgenkuchen! |
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