5-Minutes Cake: the recipe for a quick and easy to prepare dessert

The 5-minutes cake is a soft, moist dessert, which owes its name to the time it takes to prepare it. The base is simply made up of all purpose flour, potato starch, sugar, eggs, milk and butter. The addition of grated orange zest and almond slices on the surface will give it an irresistible fragrance and crunchiness.

Super quick and easy to make, it is perfect to make together with the little ones of the house. Simply mix all the ingredients in a bowl, then bake in the oven and you will get a fluffy and delicious, sweet dish. It is a perfect cake you can also enjoy at breakfast together with a cup of milk, or at snack time together with a hot and spicy infusion. You can also serve it with a veil of custard or a dollop of whipped cream. 5-minute cake is a universal recipe you can customize according to taste.

Tips for the Best 5-Minute Vanilla Cake

You can enrich the dough with chocolate chips or raisins.

You can replace the almonds with other dried fruit, such as walnuts, pistachios and pine nuts. For a dessert with a warm Christmas atmosphere, you can also add diced candied fruit and flavor it with ground cinnamon.

For a moist and pleasantly melty cake, don't miss the 5-minutes ricotta cake.

This 5-minutes cake can be decorated with powdered sugar, or stuffed with fruit jam or a hazelnut cream.

If you don't want to use butter, you can replace it with the same amount of sunflower oil.

For a dairy-free 5-minute vanilla ice cream, replace milk with water or vegetable milk such as soy, almond or coconut.

For a gluten-free version, put rice or buckwheat flour instead of wheat flour.

For a rich, sweet cake, you can add cocoa powder.

How to store 5-Minutes Cake

The 5-minutes cake can be stored at room temperature, under a glass bell, for a maximum of 2-3 days.

How to make 5-Minutes Cake

Sift the flour into a large bowl (1).

Add the sugar (2).

Flavor with the grated orange zest (3).

Add the potato starch (4).

Add the vanilla yeast (5).

Blend well (6).

Pour in the melted butter (7) and mix.

Add the eggs (8).

Pour in the milk (9).

Mix all the ingredients well until the mixture is smooth and homogeneous (10).

Pour the mixture into a pan about 20 cm in diameter, lined with a sheet of parchment paper (11).

Garnish the surface with the sliced ​​almonds (12). Bake the cake in the oven at 350° F for about 25 minutes.

After the cooking time, take the cake out of the oven (13).

Let it cool and then put onto a serving dish (14).

Sprinkle it with powdered sugar and serve (15).