Sometimes I wonder how it could happen that I forget for more than four years to blog about a favourite cake recipe, like it happen for the “Goldknödel” recipe. And it is not only my favourite recipe, it is a family favourite. A cake, that someone in my extended family will bring for each party. And everyone wants to have his/her share of this cake. A simple but well loved cake.
It is originated in the Transylvanian branch of the family, like the Greta-Gabor-Schnitten. To my suprise I found the recipe although in cookbook Kaffeehaus, which shows me once again how strong the influence of the Hungarian, Romanian and Austrian kitchen was on the kitchen of my ancestors.
When I talked to my parents about what cake I should bring to our sunday “Kaffeetrinken” (the german kind of tea time), my dad suggest something simple. And my mum then had the idea: “What’s about Goldknödel?”
And so I baked the family recipe. It is a slightly sweet yeast dough, which is divided into small pieces and each of this pieces is then turned into molten butter and afterwars in a mixture of grounded nuts and sugar. I followed the recipe nearly completly, I only reduced the amount of yeast. And the cake turned out to be as perfect as it should be. A fluffy crumb, with the taste of caramel and nuts – just as it should be. A simple cake but never boring!