GLASS CAKE

Glass cake is a typical Catalan recipe. It is called glass cake because when we take it out of oven and we spread the anise, the sugar crystallizes and it looks like glass. It is slim and hard. It’s difficult to stop eating glass cake because the smell of the anise makes you want to eat more and more. Glass cake is good to eat in any hour of the day and it’s an economical recipe to prepare. In conclusion, if you want to eat a delicious and different dish and you aren’t good at cooking, this is one of your best options.

Ingredients:
- 8g salt
- 15g yeast
- 350g flour
- 180ml water
- 25g butter ( at room temperature)
-sugar
-aniseeds

- extra virgin olive oil

- pine nuts

Instructions for the dough: 

-          Dissolve the yeast in the water. Put the flour and salt in a bowl and mix, then add the butter, the sugar and the yeast with the water.

-          Knead for 10 minutes. Form a ball with the dough, cover and let stand 10 minutes

-          Preheat the oven to 190 degrees.

-          Roll out the dough with a rolling pin (it has to be thin) and put it on a tray lined with baking paper. 

-     Make an oval shape with the dough (because this is the original shape of it).

-          Paint with a brush all the base of cake with oil, and later add pine nuts on top and sprinkle with sugar.

-          Bake it for 10 to 15 minutes.

-           When you take the cake out of the oven, sprinkle with the aniseeds and put back in the oven for a few minutes.

by Ariadna Torrents, Júlia Recordà and Clàudia Cortina