Little Coffee Cakes (Kleina Kaffee Kuchen)

Directions

1. Dissolve yeast cake in 1/4 cup of warm milk, add 2 tablespoons of flour and stand in warm place to rise.
2. Cream butter and sugar, add salt and the eggs, beaten in one at a time.
3. Add the sponge containing the yeast, the lukewarm cream and the sifted flour.
4. Grease muffin pans and sift a little flour over them.
5. Fill pans about 2/3 full with the batter.
6. Set in a warm place until dough rises to the top of the pans.
7. Bake in hot oven (400f) for 25 minutes.