The best cake like grandma’s in 8 great recipes

Lazy Sunday afternoon thinking about a dessert with a coffee?

I have a bun inspiration for you that is probably as old as the Czech Republic itself!

Don’t know what the best cake is?

Let’s take a look at the 8 best recipes!

Curd cake recipe

INGREDIENTS

• 250 g of butter
• 250 g of sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 vanilla sugar
• 250 g of soft cottage cheese
• 250 g semi-coarse flour
• 1 baking powder

METHOD

1. Rub the softened butter with sugar, vanilla sugar and egg yolks.
2. Add the cottage cheese and mix.
3. Sprinkle flour mixed with baking powder.
4. Carefully stir in the whipped snow
5. Bake in a heated oven at 180 ºC for 40-50 minutes.

A real cup cake

INGREDIENTS

• 2 eggs
• 1/3 cup oil
• 1/2 cup of milk
• 1 vanilla sugar
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 and a half cups of semi-coarse flour
• 1 baking powder

METHOD

1. Rub the softened butter with sugar, vanilla sugar and egg yolks.
2. Add flour sifted and mixed with baking powder.
3. Mix everything into a smooth semi-liquid dough, pour into a mold and bake in a heated oven at 180 °C for about 40 minutes.

Whipped cream cake

INGREDIENTS

• a cup of 33% cream
• 250 g of sugar
• 300 g plain flour
• 3 eggs
• 1 baking powder

METHOD

1. Pour cream into a bowl, add egg yolks.
2. Beat the egg whites until stiff.
3. Add sugar and flour with baking powder to the dough.
4. We beat, finally add snow.
5. Bake the cake at 180º C for about 30 minutes.
6. Serve sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Nut cake

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup plain flour
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup ground walnuts
• 1/2 cup of milk
• 1/2 cup oil
• 1 baking powder
• 1/2 cup candied fruit

METHOD

1. Beat the egg whites until stiff.
2. Put sugar and egg yolks in a bowl and beat until foamy. Then flour with baking powder.
3. Beat, add nuts and candied fruit and finally snow.
4. Bake the cake at 180 ºC for about 35 minutes.
5. We serve with a cap of whipped cream.

Banana cake recipe

INGREDIENTS

• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup oil
• 1 vanilla sugar
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup semi-coarse flour
• 1 baking powder
• 3 bananas
• lemon juice

METHOD

1. Mash the bananas in a bowl and cover them with lemon juice so they don’t lose their color.
2. Next, beat the egg yolks with sugar and oil until foamy.
3. Mix the flour and powder into the eggs.
4. Then add bananas and egg whites. Mix, pour into the mold.
5. We can freely insert several slices of banana smeared with lemon juice into the dough – for decoration.
6. Bake in a heated oven at 180 °C for about half an hour, then check with a spatula.
7. Serve sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Yogurt cake recipe

INGREDIENTS

• 400 g semi-coarse flour
• 200 g of granulated sugar
• 2 spoons of vegetable oil
• 3 eggs
• 1 large white yogurt (300 g)
• baking powder
• vanilla sugar

METHOD

1. Beat the egg yolks with crystal and vanillin sugar, add oil, water and yogurt.
2. Add the flour mixed with baking powder and finally the egg whites.
3. Pour into the mold.
4. Bake at 180 °C for about 45 minutes.
5. Serve sprinkled with powdered sugar, garnish with fruit.

Zucchini cake

INGREDIENTS

• 250 g zucchini (coarsely grated or chopped)
• lemon juice
• 200 g of granulated sugar
• 1 vanilla sugar
• 130 g of butter
• 2 eggs
• 300 g semi-coarse flour
• 1 baking powder

METHOD

1. Mix the zucchini with lemon juice.
2. Add egg yolks beaten with sugar and vanilla sugar, lukewarm butter, flour and baking powder.
3. Stir in the snow.
4. Mix everything and pour the dough into the mold.
5. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees until golden, test with a skewer.

Two-color cake pop

Prepare a delicious dessert for your afternoon coffee. The preparation is simple and you can entrust it to anyone without fear.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups plain flour
• 1 cup of milk
• 1/2 cup oil
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 baking powder
• cocoa

METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
2. Mix all the loose ingredients in a bowl (except cocoa).
3. Add liquid ingredients and work into a smooth dough.
4. Separate half of the dough and mix in the cocoa.
5. First pour the light batter into the cake pan, then the dark batter.
6. Bake in a preheated oven for approximately 45 minutes.

A different region – a different recipe for cupcakes

The puff pastry is baked from the dough:

• leavened
• rubbed
• sponge cakes

If we stay in Bohemia and Moravia, we will find that there are countless recipes for bábovka – from decades old classics with a larger number of eggs, butter and sugar to today’s lighter bábovka, where the fat is replaced by cottage cheese or yogurt , the volume of sugar used is reduced and fruit or other ingredients are added.

We use flour:

• semi-thick
• semi-thick and smooth
• we can replace part of the flour with solamyl
• part replaced with custard powder

Even though the recipe sometimes describes the preparation from whole eggs, it is always better to separate the yolks with sugar and fat , add milk or another liquid and beat the egg whites to a white, which is added alternately together with the flour that we begged with the baking powder by turning it lightly into the dough so as not to disturb the structure obtained by whipping.

Even before the snow, we add selected ingredients: nuts, raisins, fruit, a cocoa cake with grated or broken chocolate is excellent.

Bake at 180°C for about 40 minutes to 1 hour – it depends on the size of the mold.

We can find out if the cake is sufficiently cooked by inserting a wooden skewer in the middle. If the skewer is dry, the cake is baked, if there is still some dough left on it, continue baking.

If the cake is already too dark on top , cover the surface with aluminum foil . It is best to turn the baked cake onto a wire rack so that it does not get wet from below.
We can spread the baked cake with the glaze:

• lemon
• orange
• rum
• cocoa
• chocolate

A warm drink, such as cocoa, goes well with the cake. However, if you have more time, try making one of the milkshakes we also write about on the website.

Or perhaps the already mentioned coffee. Take a look at how it is prepared in Siemens coffee machines .

Succeeded? And which cake is closest to your heart? Write to us in the comments.