Bublanina - a Czech Coffee cake. It comes from the Czech word for bubble and refers to the fact that the cake batter bubbles up around the fruit, almost enveloping the fruit and solidifying around it. Also a 'coffee cake' is not a cake made with coffee but rather a cake to have with coffee or tea and is usually a simple no fuss cake.
The fruit used in a Bublanina varies with the season and commonly used fruits are sweet cherries, tart cherries, plums, nectarines, apricots, strawberries and blueberries. I love baking this in Belgrade when the stone fruits come out in full force.
I lover cakes that have oil in it which means I can bake it faster than you can say Bublanina!
Ingredients:
Flour - 2 cups
Baking powder - 2 tsp
Eggs - 2
Milk - 1 cup
Oil - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup (add 1 cup if you like it more sweet)
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Nectarines - 3 or 4 (chopped into bite size pieces)
Lemon or orange zest - 2 tsp (optional)
Method:
Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk together eggs and sugar till pale. Add zest to this if you are using. Add oil, milk and vanilla essence. Fold in sifted flour. Add the chopped fruit and bring it together gently. Pour into a baking pan and bake in the oven for about 30-40 minutes at 180C or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Eat it warm out of the oven with a hot cuppa.
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