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Top 6 Breton cake recipes… grandma’s way!

Feel like getting your (pancake) hands dirty? This winter, we’ve come up with 6 Breton cake ideas to warm you up. Butter (salted, of course), sugar and fresh eggs are the winning combo of the region’s best grandmotherly recipes! A little rich? Yes, but traditional! Ready for a taste of home? Let’s get cooking!

Kalon digor!
*Bon appétit, in Breton

Published on 27 November 2024

1 – Far breton with prunes

👩🏻‍🍳 Preparation time: 15 minutes
🥧 Cooking time: 50 minutes

What brings sailors back to port? Far breton, of course! Plain or with prunes, it’s a true emblem of our destination. Made with butter, sugar, eggs, flour and milk, it could be mistaken for a flan… Be careful! Never say that to a Breton. Here, the butter makes all the difference, giving the Far its dense, fluffy texture… Just the thought of it makes our mouths water.

Ingredients

200 g flour
40 prunes
150 g sugar
4 eggs
3/4 l whole milk
50 g semi-salted butter
1 vanilla pod
1 capful dark rum

Find out more about the (real) Far Breton with prunes recipe here 👇🏻

Recipe for Far breton with prunes

“Magit mat ho korf, hoc’h ene a chomo pelloc’h e-barzh.“
(Feed your body well, your soul will stay there longer)

2 – Kouign Amann

👩🏻‍🍳 Preparation time: 30 minutes
💤 Resting time: 2 hours
🥧 Baking time: 25 minutes

The prize for the most indulgent cake? It goes to the famous Kouign Amann without a doubt! Literally meaning “cake” and “butter”, it already sets the tone. And yes, this Breton pastry is made from bread dough, caramelized sugar and butter… folded into several layers to create this (very light) puff pastry. Our tip: enjoy it warm from the oven, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. The perfect combination of fondant and crunchiness. ❤️

Ingredients

250 g flour
200 g salted butter
200 g caster sugar
10 g baker’s yeast
10 cl water
1 pinch fleur de sel

For a Kouign Amann recipe that would make grandma green with envy, click here! 👇🏻

Recipe for Kouign Amann

3 – Breton butter cake

👩🏻‍🍳 Preparation time: 15 minutes
🥧 Cooking time: 45 minutes

As you’ll have gathered by now, when it comes to butter in our house, we don’t use the back of the spoon… We even tend to add ladles of it. And that’s how the famous Breton butter cake was born! Made with butter (of course…) and eggs, it will delight the palate of any shortbread lover… And its melt-in-the-mouth texture is to die for!

Ingredients

250 g butter
250 g sugar
375 g flour
1 whole egg
2 egg yolks (+1 for decoration)
2 tablespoons Brittany rum or lambic* (optional)

Details of Grandma’s recipe for Breton cake are right here! 👇🏻

Breton butter cake

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4 – The Tréguier doughnut

👩🏻‍🍳 Preparation time: 15 minutes
🥧 Cooking time: 20 minutes

The Breton madeleine de Proust? The Tréguier doughnut! Reinette apples (not pommes d’api) are sublimated by a few drops of rum, which gives them that unique aroma… And incorporated into a doughnut batter baked in butter (again and again) it’s even better! Back to childhood in 3, 2, 1…

Ingredients

3 reinette apples
3 eggs
3 tablespoons flour
3 tablespoons caster sugar
25 cl milk
5 cl Rum

Our favorite recipe for Tréguier doughnuts is here 👇🏻

Recipe for Tréguier doughnuts

5 – Salted butter caramel and mascarpone crepe cake

👩🏻‍🍳 Preparation time: 45 minutes

In Brittany, crêpes are a veritable institution. So much so, in fact, that it’s no secret that they can be turned into so many different things… and even into a fluffy cake! Perhaps the sky has finally fallen. The aim? Place pancakes on top of each other, separated by sweet mascarpone cream and salted butter caramel, until a cake forms. It’s like a dream…

And for even more gourmet pleasure…

Do you know Breton gwell? Also known as Laezh Teo, this traditional Breton specialty is actually fermented “coarse milk”, made with whole milk from Bretonne Pie Noir, Froment du Léon, Nantaise or Armoricaine cows. Our idea? Slip it into a crêpe cake instead of mascarpone… And to get it, head for Ferme du Wern!

Ingredients

10 crêpes
1 large jar salted butter caramel
250 g gwell
50 g sugar
2 eggs

Let yourself be tempted by the crêpe cake recipe! 👇🏻

Pancake recipe

Crepe Cake With Mascarpone And Dirty Butter Cramel

6 – The Breizh-style log

👩🏻‍🍳 Preparation time: 1 hour

To warm you up for the festive season, we’re going all out: a log made with, we’ll give you… crêpes. Add to that apple compote, salted butter caramel cream and a Breton shortbread base, and paf! It makes a magical log. ✨

This Christmas, surprise your guests with this 100% Breton log recipe!👇🏻

Recipe for Breton log

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