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                                            Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 30 Minutes  | 
                                            Ready In: 30 Minutes Servings: 8  | 
                                         
                                        
                                     
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                    Old country German cake recipe, rivels are the crumb like mixture topping the cake Ingredients: 
                    
                        
                                                1 recipe sweet dough or frozen sweet bread dough ( yeast dough )  |  
                                                1/2 cup sugar  |  
                                                1/4 cup butter  |  
                                                1 tbs flour  |  
                                                1 egg  |  
                                                optional vanilla flavor to taste  |  
                                                heavy cream  |  
                                                topping  |  
                                                1/2 cup flour  |  
                                                1/2 cup butter  |  
                                                1/2 cup sugar  |  
                                                optinal cinnmaon to taste  |  
                                                red berry jam as desired ( apricot is nice too )  |  
                                                
                     
                    Directions: 
                    
                        
                            
                                1. Using a sweet roll dough recipe (frozen dough works well),roll dough to fit the bottom of a square pan. after dough has been prepared, risen double and punched down; then fit dough into pan 2. Spread on top of dough: the mixed togther,sugar, egg, flour, and add a little cream if mixture is too thick 3. On top of this mixture sprinkle the mixed rivel topping: 4. ( work into into crumb mixture.) 5. Then drop a little berry jam here and there, 6. Then bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. 7. Cool to warm. 8. Serve warm or room temperature 9. Note: Dough recipe makes 2, 9 inch cakes but filling/ topping is only for one cake and double to make 2 square pans or one 9 x 13 pan.                              | 
                         
                         
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