Butter cake

Name: butter cake
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 240 gram flour; 160 gram white bastard sugar; 200 gram cold butter; 1 egg

Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.
Mix in a bowl the flour and sugar with a pinch of salt.
Scoop the diced butter through and knead everything quickly with a cool hand into a cohesive dough ball.
Do not knead the dough too long.
Press it out into the greased butter cake shape with strip and smooth the top with the convex side of a spoon.
(If your shape does not have strips, put parchment paper on the bottom.
) Brush the dough thinly with the beaten egg and then draw with the handle of the spoon a diamond pattern in the dough.
Bake the butter cake in the middle of the oven in 20-25 minutes until golden brown and done.
Let the butter cake cool down in the mold and loosen the cake from the bottom using the rotatable strip.
Cut the cake into points or into cubes.