Breton cake recipe

This traditional French butter cake, Gateau Breton, is a very buttery shortbready biscuit cake originating from Brittany in France.

This Gâteau Breton (French Buttery Cake) is a cross between a cake and a biscuit. It is a delicious speciality from Brittany!

Gâteau Breton is a classic French butter cake made with everyday pantry staples. Try this easy gâteau Breton recipe for your next celebration or gathering.

Hailing from France’s Brittany coast, gâteau Breton boasts a bright jam filling and a rich, dense texture, which elevate this rustic cake to a first-class confection. Making a traditional gâteau Breton with a dense yet tender crumb calls for mixing a thick batter made primarily of butter, sugar, egg yolks, and flour, which is baked with a thin layer of jam running through its center. To avoid introducing too much air into the batter, which would lead to a fluffy, airy texture, we creamed the…

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Gateau Breton is French butter cake, Brittany's finest. It's an enormous shortbread, a gigantic jammy dodger, the impossibly buttery double tart.

In France this cake is called a “gateau breton”, in England a “Brittany butter cake”, and in the Netherlands a “boterkoek” . Whichever name ...

Hello everybody! It’s time for cake and for this, nothing better than a buttery cake from Brittany! This region is very well know for its delicious cookies and cakes and I’m sure you mu…