St. Petersburg Muffin Cake - flour

Method

• First I cut into small peaces my candied fruits, u can add raisins if u like, but I usually stick to pineapple, papaya, cranberries....
• Then I took some nuts, put them in the microwave for less then a minute, gave them some time to cool down, and crushed with an ancient hand grater.
• U can actually fry the nuts, I just used the easier way.
• Butter was taken out of the fridge some time ago to be soft, but I forgot to do that, so also melted it a bit in microwave, I had one solid peace, so just some 40 seconds.
• It anyway started to melt a bit, but while I made things ready it hardened back.
• I cut it into small peaces for it to continue melting.
• P.s.
• Butter shouldn't be liquid.
• It's my little mistake.
• Sift the flour, with baking powder, soda and vanilla sugar.
• I do that to add fluffiness
• Divide the whites and the yolks ....
• In the mixer whip the whites with the half of the sugar.
• Make it a good thick foam.
• Put in the fridge.
• Then whip the yolks with the rest of sugar into creamy white texture, add budget, continue mixing and then add sour cream.
• The texture might seam a bit weird... Don't whip that for long, otherwise sour cream might loose water and it will become less creamy.
• Pick a bigger dish and carefully, better with a plastic or wooden spoon mix the whites with the yolk mix.
• Don't do it too fanatic, because bit by bit u should start adding flour, and carefully mix.
• U will hear bubbles of foam ...
• The dough should be quite sticky.
• I added all flour in 4 goes.
• Somewhere between flour I added the fruits and nuts.
• Smear the form with butter and sprinkle with breaking.
• Since the dough will be quite thick, u should put it carefully in the form.
• And don't try to make it super even, it will anyway melt evenly.
• And strange step, but even my granny did so, U should cut the dough...
• Yes, u got me right, just cut that raw dough.
• Oven must be heated up to 200C.
• When heated, the cake goes in.
• And just calm down.
• I put it on lower place.
• I watched it, so 25 min it was turned on lower heat, then some 10 on upper+lower, and some 5 minutes on upper for color.
• I checked it with a wooden stick, if it's ready.
• When out, don't keep it for long in form, so it doesn't absorb humidity.