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The recipe of the month : the "gâteau battu" recipe

The gâteau battu is a Picardy speciality from Ponthieu (Abbeville's region). It's a brioche cake, very rich and with a cylindric form. This cake must be served with rhubarb jam or custard.

The recipe

Ingredients

- 20 egg yolks
- 2 beaten egg whites
- 500 gram of flour
- 125 gram of caster sugar
- 125 gram of baker's yeast
- 500 gram of butter
- 1 glass of cognac or kirsch
- 1 pinch of salt

How to do it ?

1. Put the flour in a container

2. Add the melted butter, sugar, alcohol, salt and the 20 egg yolks then the baker's yeast first mixed with tepid water.

3. Add the 2 beaten egg whites

4. Work the mixture with hands until it unsticks from the fingers

5. Butter 4 specific cake tins (15 cm higher)

6. Pour 1/4 of the mixture in each cake tin

7. Put a lid on the tins and put them close to the burner

8. Put in a hot oven when the mixture is nearly overflowing the tin

9. Let bake 20 minutes

Taste it ! It's delicious !

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