OK, I admit it: This is a recipe that just uses the TMX as a food processor to quickly whip up a cake in a matter of minutes. It’s taken from a recipe on www.chefkoch.de (http://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/852941190731804/Schmandkuchen.html). You’ll find a photo there of the finished product. It tastes better the next day.
One word of warning: In Germany we have something called “Schmand” which roughly translates as sour cream. If you decide to make this you’ll need 800g of sour cream with the highest fat content you can find because Schmand is so thick over here that you can cut it with a knife.
It’s a good “emergency cake”, i. e. it calls for ingredients from the store cupboard/larder that you probably already have on hand.
65g butter (NOT margarine)
65 g sugar
150g flour
1/2 packet of baking powder (I used 1 generous tsp)
1 egg
Tip all the ingredients into the TMX and blitz on speed 5 until you have a smooth dough. Press this into a greased 26 cm cake tin.
Then add the following ingredients to the TMX (no need to wash it out first – I couldn’t be bothered):
500 ml milk
2 packets of vanilla pudding powder
800g Schmand (really thick sour cream)
200g sugar
Tip the ingredients into the TMX, whizz on speed 5 until the mixture is smooth. Add the contents of two DRAINED tins of mandarines and stir on speed soft spoon REVERSE for a bit to mix the mandarines into the vanilla cream. Pour this into the cake tin. Bake at 180 C for 1 hour.
This cake contains a lot of sugar and probably isn’t all that healthy but - as I said - it’s a good cake for emergencies.
