Recipe: Perfect Gata bread (cake)

Gata bread (cake). Using a folk and make a pattern top of the dough. This heavenly delicious cake can be saved for a week in the fridge. Long ago, gata was baked in a tonir, but it is now baked in ovens.

Ever famous popular Armenian bread, Gata (Armenian: գաթա gatʿa); also sometimes transliterated as Gatah (Eastern Armenian) or Katah (Western Armenian) is an Armenian pastry or sweet bread, similar to a coffee cake. There are many variations of gata and typically specific towns or regions will have their own version. Ever famous popular Armenian bread, also sometimes transliterated as Gatah (Eastern Armenian) or Katah (Western Armenian) is an Armenian pastry or sweet bread, similar to a coffee cake. You can cook Gata bread (cake) using 18 ingredients and 25 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Gata bread (cake)

1. You need 2 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour.
2. It's 1 of whole egg plus whites from other egg.
3. You need 1 of yolk egg.
4. Prepare 20 g of unsalted butter.
5. Prepare 2/3 cup of clotted cream.
6. Prepare 1 of large orange zest.
7. You need 1 Tbsp of sugar.
8. It's 1 Tsp. of baking powder.
9. You need Pinch of salt.
10. It's 1 Tbsp. of milk.
11. It's of Ingredients for the filling.
12. It's 3/4 cup of sugar.
13. It's 20 g of unsalted butter.
14. Prepare 1/2 Tsp of cinnamon powder.
15. It's 1/4 Tsp of nutmeg powder.
16. Prepare 1/2 cup of all purpose flour.
17. You need 1/2 cup of raisins.
18. It's 2/3 cup of crushed walnuts.

There are many variations of gata and typically specific towns or regions will have their own version. Gata is an Armenian pastry or sweet bread, similar to a coffee cake. In this video I show you how I make Gata sweet bread. Gata is an Armenian pastry or sweet bread.

Gata bread (cake) step by step

1. Using a blender and mix sugar and butter for 2-3 minutes. Then add clotted cream, one whole egg and whites of other egg, and mix for 2 minutes more. In other bowl, mix flour with salt and baking powder. Add flour in two steps and mix 2 minutes..
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3. Now add orange zest and knead the dough until orange zest combined with dough. Cover the dough and place it in the fridge for 30 minutes..
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5. While dough is in the fridge, prepare the filling. In a bowl with sugar and butter, add cinnamon, nutmeg and flour. Mix all ingredients and make it crumbly.Now, add crushed walnuts and raisins to the flour and mix well. Preheat the oven at 190C..
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7. Sprinkle some flour on the working surface and place the dough on the surface and spread it. Put the filling on the centre of the dough.
8. And gather the sides of the dough and give a round shape. Spread pinch of flour top on the surface of the dough and gently seal the edges..
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10. Grease the baking pan, and line the pan with parchment paper. Place the dough in the pan and gently tap on the dough..
11. Mix egg yolk with 1 Tbsp milk and brush top of the cake. Using a folk and make a pattern top of the dough. Place it in the oven and bake it for 30 minutes. This heavenly delicious cake can be saved for a week in the fridge..
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24. Ingredients.
25. Ingredients for filling.

It is similar to a coffee cake. In Western Armenian, it is called Katah. The types of Gata vary depending on the specific towns or regions where Gata is being made. A bit of research led to Armenian Gata. It is a sweet and soft bread, almost like a pastry.