Cake with jam from Gerbo dough

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Dough preparation products: milk, flour, sugar, margarine (or butter), egg, dry yeast and baking powder, vanilla sugar.

2. Step 2:

   

   In 0.5 cups of warm milk (not hot!) pour out 10 gr. dry yeast, 1 tbsp. l. sugar and 2 tbsp.l. flour. Mix, cover with a cloth (I take an ordinary table napkin) and set aside for 15 minutes so that the yeast comes up. It is better to do this immediately in the bowl in which you will knead the dough. I took a 3-liter bowl.

3. Step 3:

   

   Melt 200 gr.margarine or butter. Let it cool down a little.

4. Step 4:

   

   Yeast came up.

5. Step 5:

   

   In a bowl with yeast, add the egg, the remaining sugar (0.5 tbsp without 1 tbsp. l., which we poured into milk with yeast), vanilla sugar and melted cooled margarine. Mix it up.

6. Step 6:

   

   Sift 500 gr. flour together with 2 tsp baking powder. Adding to the dough, knead well until smooth. The dough turns out soft, elastic, very pleasant. Spread on the table (on a board, silicone mat), cover with a bowl and leave for 30 minutes.

7. Step 7:

   

   While the dough is coming, we will prepare the streusel. To do this, rub 40 gr. of soft butter with 1/2 tbsp of sugar and 1/4 tsp of vanilla sugar in a bowl with a fork.

8. Step 8:

   

   Here we pour 1/2 st-on flour, mix.

9. Step 9:

   

   Roll up the sausage, wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the freezer.

10. Step 10:

    

    Divide the dough into 4 equal parts. It is advisable to use scales. Each piece I had weighed ~ 230g.

11. Step 11:

    

    Let's start "collecting" pie. I had cherry jam for the filling. You can take any, as well as jam or thick jam.

13. Step 12:

    

    Roll out each bun of dough into a layer of 20x30 cm.

14. Step 13:

    

    Put it on a baking sheet covered with baking paper or on a silicone mat. We smear with jam.

15. Step 14:

    

    Roll out the second layer of dough. We spread it on top of the first one. We smear with jam. We do this with all the pieces of dough.The dough layers should be of the same size. There is no need to fasten them together. Just spread one on top of the other, smearing each filling.

16. Step 15:

    

    The upper layer of the dough is not smeared with jam yet. Prick with a fork so that the dough does not swell when baking. Leave the pie in a warm place for 30 minutes.

17. Step 16:

    

    Sometimes it's hard to find a warm place to lift a pie in an apartment. I proceed as follows. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Then I turn off the gas. I open the door for half a minute. I put a baking sheet with a pie in the oven turned off. I'm closing the door. And through the window in the oven I follow the process. That's how I got it up.

18. Step 17:

    

    Cover the top of the cake with jam.

19. Step 18:

    

    We take out the frozen sausage dough for streusel. Grate on a coarse grater.

20. Step 19:

    

    We cover the whole top of the pie with streusel crumbs. We put it in the preheated oven. Bake at t180 deg. 25-30 min until golden brown.

21. Step 20:

    

    Let the pie cool completely. Then trim the edges exactly to make a rectangle.

22. Step 21:

    

    Cut the pie into portions. I get 20 of them.