Zubereitung

1. 1

   Mix the plain flour with the sugar, the vanilla sugar, the baking powder, the salt and the nutmeg in a bowl.

2. 2

   Add the egg, the soft butter or margarine and the milk and stir everything to a thick batter that tears only reluctantly. It should drop from the spoon but not flow.

3. 3

   Cut two pieces of baking paper to the size of the basket and place four mounds of batter on each, well spaced. Spread the mounds with the back of a spoon into flat rounds of about 8 cm, as the batter barely spreads any further in the basket.

4. 4

   Preheat the airfryer to 160 °C.

5. 5

   Put the first sheet of paper with four Amerikaner into the basket in a single layer and stack nothing on top; the other four go in for a second batch. The paper is weighed down by the batter, otherwise it flies into the fan. Bake at 160 °C.

6. 6

   Carry on baking at 160 °C until the underside is golden brown and a wooden skewer stays dry. Do not turn them, as the soft batter would spread and lose its smooth underside.

7. 7

   Leave the Amerikaner to cool completely on a wire rack.

8. 8

   Stir the icing sugar smooth with the lemon juice and spread it over the flat underside of the cold cakes.