Reisfladen (Rice Pudding Cake)

Description

Rice pudding cake is my husband’s favorite German dessert! Serve with homemade whipped cream.

Ingredients

  • ½ gallon milk
  • 1 cup uncooked white rice
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 3 eggs, lightly beaten
  • ¼ cup milk
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast
  • ¼ cup white sugar
  • 1 individual packet vanilla sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ½ cup lukewarm milk
  • ½ cup melted butter
  • 2 eggs

Instructions

  1. Combine 1/2 gallon milk
  2. rice
  3. and sugar in a slow cooker. Cook on High until rice is puffy but mixture is still thin
  4. about 3 hours 15 minutes.
  5. Mix 3 eggs
  6. 1/4 cup milk
  7. vanilla extract
  8. and salt together in a bowl. Add 1/2 cup of the hot rice mixture
  9. stirring in 1 tablespoon at a time
  10. until blended. Pour mixture into the slow cooker
  11. stirring constantly. Cook on Low until rice has absorbed all the liquid
  12. about 30 minutes more. Let cool to room temperature
  13. about 2 hours.
  14. Meanwhile
  15. place flour
  16. yeast
  17. sugars
  18. egg
  19. lukewarm milk
  20. and melted butter in a bread machine in the order listed. Run Dough cycle. Remove dough from the machine after the cycle is done
  21. about 90 minutes. Let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume
  22. about 30 minutes.
  23. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Butter an 11-inch springform pan. Smooth dough into the pan.
  24. Whisk 2 eggs and brush all but 1 tablespoon onto the dough. Pour rice pudding onto the dough and brush top with remaining egg wash.
  25. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the cake layer comes out clean
  26. about 25 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes and release cake from the pan. Let cool completely. Refrigerate until thoroughly chilled
  27. 6 hours to overnight.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 4 hrs 10 mins

Total Time: 12 hrs 35 mins

Servings: 12

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