Cake #23 - Brie and Thyme Cake

Savoury Saturday Cake - Brie and Thyme Cake.

I had recently bought a few pots of herbs - parsley, basil, thyme and coriander. The smell of them now fill my kitchen and, unfortunately, not always in a good way. For some reason placing a pot of thyme beside a pot of basil has created an odour similar to cat pee and as we do have two cats I may have blamed the poor felines once or twice - although they are two responsible and mature adult cats who never pee in places where they should not. At least I believe so. Or want to believe so.

Now I wanted to use the thyme for something. My sons see red when they see green. Not that they would be colour-blind but they just hate fresh herbs. So no lamb stew with thyme,  too obvious. Pizza with thyme? No. 

Then I got the idea of hiding some thyme inside a cake together with some junks of Brie cheese. I combined some basic recipes and managed to create a savoury sweetish cake which I will definitely bake again some time! Yummy in everybody's tummy.

You can enjoy it with slices of parma ham and olives to get the savoury taste come through. Or you can enjoy it with some apple sauce or black cherry jam to jump to the sweeter side. 

Brie and Thyme Cake

150 g soft butter

100 ml demerara sugar

2 eggs

½ tsp salt

400 ml plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

50 ml milk

250 g Brie cheese, sliced 

2 tbsp honey

2 tbsp fresh thyme, finely chopped

1. Heat the oven to 175 C / 350 F and grease and flour a Ø 24 cm springform pan.

2. Mix together the dry ingredients.

3. Cream together butter and sugar.

4. Add eggs and mix well.

5. Add the dry ingredients and milk.

6. Pour half of the mixture into the pan. 

7. Place the Brie slices on the dough, add honey drop by drop and then sprinkle the chopped thyme.

8. Pour the rest of the dough evenly into the pan so that it covers the cheese slices.

9. Bake in the oven for about 40-45 minutes.

10. Let cool before removing from pan.

11. Serve with meats and olives as a savoury snack or with jam as a sweet one. We enjoyed the cake for brunch.