Capital Cake
Description
Homemade baked goods for tea. The “Stolichny” cake is a fragrant and fluffy pastry with raisins, made with butter. It turns out with a golden crust, a soft, slightly crumbly crumb and a pleasant sweetness. This cake is perfect with tea, stays fresh for a long time and is easy to make from simple ingredients that are always on hand It can be served with tea or coffee.
Instructions
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Step 1
Lay out all the ingredients on the table in advance. It's better to take the butter out of the refrigerator about an hour beforehand. So that it becomes soft.
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Step 2
Rinse the raisins, place them in a bowl, pour boiling water over them and let stand for 15 minutes.
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Step 3
Place the softened butter, cut into convenient pieces, into a spacious bowl. Add the sugar.
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Step 4
Whisk these ingredients with a mixer until creamy.
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Step 5
Now add the eggs one at a time to the butter mixture, continuing to beat with the mixer.
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Step 6
Sift the flour with baking powder into this mixture. Add vanilla sugar.
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Step 7
Fold in the flour with a spatula, and the result should be a thick, uniform, sticky dough.
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Step 8
Drain the water from the raisins, transfer them to a bowl, sprinkle with flour, and mix.
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Step 9
Add raisins coated in flour to the dough.
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Step 10
Mix it with a spatula until evenly distributed throughout the mass.
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Step 11
Place the batter into a cupcake mold, smoothing it with a spatula. My mold is silicone, so I don’t grease it. Put the filled mold into a pre‑heated oven at 180 °C and bake the cake for about 40–45 minutes.
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Step 12
Place the hot cake on a rack to cool.
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Step 13
After it has fully cooled, serve the finished Stolichny cake at the table, sprinkling it with powdered sugar.
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Step 14
Remove from the oven and serve warm or cooled.