From my mama’s recipe book

First of all, THANK YOU for the kind feedback: guests, locals, and strangers alike enjoy reading my farm stories, and people especially love to try out the recipes from the farm kitchen.

Today I’m sending you a great recipe that we enjoyed making often in my childhood home at Maurachgut. The Fanta cake. I think as children it tasted even better to us because the word Fanta alone already had a positive effect. Perhaps it is nothing special for children nowadays, but for us it was and still is a “special” drink, which is only bought and drunk on birthdays or special occasions, as we drink almost exclusively homemade juices.

The cake is particularly moist and delicious – simply good with coffee on warm summer days. It is relatively quick to make and tastes especially good with peaches, raspberries, or bilberries (blueberries).

These dimensions are intended for a single sheet of metal.

Base: 4 eggs (separate yolks and whites), 250 g sugar, 1/8 l oil, 150 ml Fanta (or sparkling water or cola), 250 g wheat flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder.

Beat the egg whites until stiff, and in a separate bowl, beat the egg yolks with the sugar until fluffy; then add the oil one spoonful at a time, followed by the Fanta. Once it’s nice and frothy, slowly stir in the wheat flour and baking powder, one spoonful at a time. Place them on a baking sheet and bake at about 180 degrees for 25 minutes. Let it cool.

Today we used blueberries as a topping – fresh from the alpine pasture. Here they are called “Schwarzbeeren” and are also particularly popular as a fruit. After the cake has cooled, cover the base with blueberries and prepare the topping.

Topping: 1 cup of sour cream (preferably from the Salzburg region), 1 package of crème fraîche, 1 cup of homemade yogurt or yogurt from the Salzburg region, 2 packets of vanilla sugar; if you like, you can also add a little regular fine-grain sugar. If you like, add another packet of whipped cream stabilizer.

Cut 1 tin of peaches into small pieces or, as we did today, prepare blueberries and place them on the base of the finished baked dough. Then spread the cream over it and put it in the fridge; once it has set a little, you can sprinkle a bit of cinnamon on top. Enjoy your meal from Zittrauerhof in Gastein. www.gasteinurlaub.com