Are you ready to try some unusual dessert? We have a perfect recipe for you: modern spin on a classic manna cake. With its delicate crumb and fragile golden rust, “manna cake” was made to be baked immediately. We will give you a step-by-step guide on how to make a perfect dessert for your family tea time!
This recipe is open to improvisation: you can substitute ingredients (kefir for sour cream or yogurt); add new ingredients (nuts and fruits) etc. Customize this cake to your taste.
Ingredients for Modern Manna Dessert:
- 1 cup semolina;
- ½ cup all-purpose flour;
- 1 cup sugar;
- 1 tsp. baking powder;
- 100 g butter;
- 1 cup plain kefir;
- 1 egg;
- a pinch of salt;
How to Cook Delicious Manna Desert:
- Let`s mix all the dry ingredients together: all-purpose flour, semolina, baking powder, sugar and salt.
- Now, add kefir to the mix of dry ingredients (as a last resort, you can replace kefir with sour cream and even plain yogurt, but only with the help of kefir manna will be so fluffy and soft).
- Melt butter in a small saucepan.
- Add melted butter into the batter. Stir everything intensely.
- Next step would be to break in an egg.
- After another good stir you should leave the batter for 25 minutes to rest (at this time, the batter will rise).
- It is easier for you to take cake form with removable bottom or adjustable cake ring and use parchment paper as a bottom. Before using any form, smear all the sides with butter. Now, place batter in the form.
- Bake manna in the oven for 45 minutes at 180 °C/375 °F. Before serving, decorate manna with powdered sugar.
Enjoy your delicious manna dessert!
You can always improve taste of this unusual manna cake by adding raisins, nuts, berries, poppy seeds and even fruits.
We hope that you will like this recipe of manna cake baked in the oven and you will share it with your friends! It is simple to make, but delicious and unusual at the same time! Try following all the steps and you will get perfect manna on kefir.
Manna Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup semolina
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 100 g butter
- 1 cup plain kefir
- 1 egg
- a pinch of salt
Instructions
- Let`s mix all the dry ingredients together: all-purpose flour, semolina, baking powder, sugar and salt.
- Now, add kefir to the mix of dry ingredients (as a last resort, you can replace kefir with sour cream and even plain yogurt, but only with the help of kefir manna will be so fluffy and soft).
- Melt butter in a small saucepan.
- Add melted butter into the batter. Stir everything intensely.
- Next step would be to break in an egg.
- After another good stir you should leave the batter for 25 minutes to rest (at this time, the batter will rise).
- It is easier for you to take cake form with removable bottom or adjustable cake ring and use parchment paper as a bottom. Before using any form, smear all the sides with butter. Now, place batter in the form.
- Bake manna in the oven for 45 minutes at 180 °C/375 °F. Before serving, decorate manna with powdered sugar. Enjoy your delicious manna dessert!
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