Barberry Bundt Cake

I found this recipe for a Barberry Cake in our local organic supermarket’s monthly magazine and it turned out great but not only that – I later learned that the main ingredient, dried barberries, are also extremely healthy! They contain berbeerine, which has been used for its medicinal properties for a long time. The range of health benefits is just enormous so I’ll spare you the listing, but Google knows them all!

Did you ever hear of this fruit before? I haven’t. But if someone has I’d love to hear some more clever ways or recipe to use them.

In the meanwhile, this is the recipe for this beauty:

Ingredients:

• 125 g hazelnuts
• 3 large eggs
• 150 g spelt or wheat flour
• 1 tsp. cream of tartar (or baking powder)
• 20-25 g dried barberries
• 150 g butter, room temperature
• 100 g sugar
• ½ tsp. vanilla powder
• pinch of salt

For the glaze:

• 100 g dark chocolate

1. Preheat oven to 170°C (340°F)
2. Grease and flour a 16 cm (6-inch) Bundt pan
3. Toast the hazelnuts on a baking pan in an oven for about 10 minutes until lightly colored. Let them cool.
4. Take 100 grams of hazelnuts and grind them finely, leave the rest for later.
5. Cream, using paddle attachment, the butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy.
6. With mixer on medium speed, add eggs, 1 at a time.
7. Sift together flour, cream of tartar (or baking powder) and salt into a bowl.
8. Add the flour mixture to batter and mix until just combined and finally mix in the ground hazelnuts and dried barberries with a spatula.
9. Pour the batter into pan and smooth the top.
10. Bake about 35 minutes, until tester comes out clean.
11. When the cake is done, cool 10 minutes, remove it from pan and set on wire rack.
12. In the meantime, prepare toppings: Chop the rest of hazelnuts coarsely and make chocolate curls from only one bar of chocolate using a potato peeler: please take a look at this tutorial if you don’t know what I’m talking about.
13. Leave the cake to cool on a wire rack (make sure it’s the right side up) and slide a piece of parchment paper under the rack.
14. Break the rest of the chocolate into small pieces, melt it over hot water and spread it warm over top of cake, letting it drizzle down the sides.
15. Garnish with curls, berries and chopped hazelnuts and let the glaze harden completely.

Voila! Enjoy the cake. Beware that the cake is pretty small so it may disappear in front of your eyes in seconds!

-Polona

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