What Are Yeast cakes and How Can I Use Them?
Yeast cakes is easier to cook with than it looks. Here's how to choose, use, and store them, what to substitute, and 11 recipes to get you started.
| In Chinese: | 酵母蛋糕 | |
| British (UK) term: | Yeast cakes | |
| en français: | gâteaux de levure | |
| en español: | tortas de levadura |
Recipes using yeast cakes
There are 11 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Italian Cheesecake with Toschi Amarena Cherries
A tasty cheesecake with famous Italian Toschi amarena cherries. The black amarena is a sweet fruit with a bitterish aftertaste. Fresh and summery, it is carefully stoned and sweetened and can be eaten all year round.
Biscotti di Prato o cantucci the original recipe
Traditionally cantucci combine with vin Santo generally or liqueur wines, although they are very good even with the dry wines such as sparkling wines.
Election Cake
Election cake is a yeast-raised colonial American cake with brandy-soaked currants, mace, cinnamon, and lemon. A slow-rising, historically rich sweet bread traced to 1700s New England.
Del Rossi Pizza
Homemade pizza dough made from scratch with yeast, rolled thin, and baked crisp with pizza sauce, mozzarella, and oregano. An Italian-American classic that's simple enough for any weeknight.
Buttermilk Rolls
Old-fashioned buttermilk rolls topped with poppy seeds and brushed with melted butter. Soft, tangy, and ready in about an hour. Makes 2 dozen dinner rolls.
Elderberry Wine- Vin De Fleurs Du Sareau
Homemade elderberry wine fermented with fresh berries, sugar, lemon juice, and yeast. A traditional country winemaking recipe that needs just five ingredients and three months of patience.
Ciabatta #2
Authentic Italian ciabatta with fresh yeast, bread flour, and extra-virgin olive oil. A wet, sticky dough rises for hours to produce big holes and a soft, chewy, floury crust.
Melt-In-Your-Mouth Potato Muffins
Melt-in-your-mouth potato muffins: tender yeast-raised rolls with mashed potatoes folded in, brushed with butter and dusted with powdered sugar. An old-fashioned tearoom treat.
Butterscotch Rolls
Butterscotch pecan rolls baked in muffin tins: soft cinnamon-swirl yeast dough over a brown-sugar-pecan bottom that caramelizes into a sticky topping when flipped out warm.
Crockpot Dark Whole Wheat Bran Bread
Crockpot dark wheat bran bread bakes hands-off in a slow cooker with whole wheat, soy flour, bran cereal, and molasses. A no-oven yeast loaf with a moist crumb and dark malty flavor.
Black Walnut Butterscotch Rolls
Soft, yeasted rolls swirled with brown sugar, cinnamon, and black walnuts, baked in a buttery butterscotch coating that pools over each warm roll. Old-fashioned sticky bun goodness from scratch.
