Desert or Dessert

I have been baking plenty of sheet cakes lately to take to all sort of events or just because ;). 
Tonight is my sons JROTC pie social that means another chance to fire up my oven and give it a workout.
Sheet cakes are usually the way I go when more than 8 slices are needed.          A sheet cake can make between 24-30 slices depending on how rich your cake is. Hurrah, for the sheet cake!
I ran across the term Wednesday cake (Mittwochs-Kuchen) when I looked through a German baking book for a recipe to make for today (Backvergnuegen wie noch nie). I had no idea where this term came from so I looked into the history of it. Unfortunately I was unable to come up with much.
There are two ways to go on this term but neither has a solid reference.

a) the term describes a cake that tastes better a few days after baking (bake it Wednesday and eat it Saturday like in the olden days). Often these types of cakes have streusel on them.
b) describes a cake that was baked after the weekend cake was polished of by  Tuesday

Both sound plausible so take your pick. I will dig deeper into this “mystery” in the future. Until than I don’t mind a cake in the middle of the week or any other day of the week.


Blob cake

Ingredients:

Dough	Poppy seed filling	Cheese Cake filling	Streusel
500g flour	250ml milk	250g quark (farmers cheese, cream cheese)	175g flour
2 1/4 tsp yeast	20g butter	4T milk	100g sugar
80g sugar	30g Griess (semolina, grit, cream of wheat)	1 egg (separated)	100g melted butter
250ml milk	100g crushed poppy seed	80g sugar	Jam
80g butter	50g sugar	2tsp vanilla sugar	250g cherry jam or any other
1 egg	1 egg
pinch of salt	1T rum		melted butter for baking sheet
	1/4 tsp cinnamon

Dough:
Mix flour, yeast, sugar, salt and add scrambled egg.
Melt butter and add milk. Add lukewarm butter/milk mixture to flour mixture and knead until you have a nice soft slightly tacky dough.
Cover (rise until double) = the recipe mentions no rise but to place the dough onto the sheet right away. I always let my dough rise first. How about try it both ways.

Poppy seed filling:
Melt butter in the milk, add Griess (semolina etc.) and let soak for 5 minutes. Add poppy seeds, sugar, egg, rum and cinnamon and mix it well. Set aside.
PS: I only had non crushed poppy seeds. It’s more gritty this way though.

cheese cake filling:
Mix the quark (cream cheese etc.) with the milk, sugar, vanilla sugar and egg yolk.
Beat the egg white until it forms stiff peaks. Lift stiff egg white under the quark filling. Set aside.

Streusel:
Melt the butter. Mix flour and sugar and with a fork mix melted butter under the flour mixture

Assembly:
Butter your baking sheet and roll out dough, add globs of the fillings (poppy seed, cheese cake and jam) onto the dough. I used Elderberry/Plum jam.

                              Top with the Streusel and let rest for 15 minutes.

                        Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes (golden color)