Baking Recipes

Currant – Butter Cake

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 30 mins
Total Time 1 hr 30 mins
Course Baking
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 1)

Ingredients

  • 400 g flour
  • 25 g yeast, fresh or 1 pack dry yeast
  • 150 grams sugar
  • 200 ml milk
  • salt
  • 2 egg (s)
  • 300 g butter, soft
  • 500 g currants, red
  • 200 g marzipan raw mixture
  • 3 drops bitter almond flavor
  • 50 g almond (s) (flakes)
  • 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
Currant – Butter Cake
Currant – Butter Cake

Instructions

  1. Knead the flour, crumbled yeast, 70 g sugar, lukewarm milk, 1 pinch of salt, eggs and 70 g soft butter with the dough hook. Cover and let rise in a warm place for 40 minutes. Best in the oven at 50 degrees with the door ajar.
  2. Strip the currants from the panicles with a fork. Mix 230 g butter, crumbled marzipan, 30 g sugar and baking flavor with the whisk of the mixer to a smooth, creamy mass.
  3. Knead the dough with floured hands on a well floured work surface. Then press apart evenly with your hands on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Let rise for another 15 minutes in a warm place. Then press holes in the dough close together with your thumb. Press the marzipan mixture into the holes with a piping bag.
  4. Place the currants and flaked almonds on the cake, sprinkle with 50 g of sugar. Bake in the preheated oven at 200 degrees on the 2nd rack from the bottom for 25-30 minutes. Circulating air for 25 minutes at 180 degrees. Then let cool down lukewarm and dust with powdered sugar
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

The Boss Kitchen editorial staff oversees content review, fact-checking, and recipe verification across the site. Published articles pass through the editorial team before going live, ensuring ingredient lists, techniques, cooking times, and nutritional claims hold up in a home kitchen. The team coordinates contributions across the site writers, handles reader corrections, and maintains consistency in measurement conventions, safety guidance, and dietary labeling. Posts under this byline typically represent team-reviewed reference material, site announcements, or editorial roundups rather than individual-author features, and they are held to the same sourcing standards as bylined recipe and product coverage.

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