Easy Cinnamon Cake
120 g melted butter
400 g sugar
½ L kærnemælk (buttermilk)
400 g flour
2 tsp natron (baking soda)
4 tsp cinnamon, optional
Melt the butter and sugar in a saucepan. Pour them into the mixing bowl with the other ingredients. Mix. Bake ½ hr at 200 C.
Friend's Notes:
This is a handwritten recipe, which I was given from a Danish woman from my mother's group six years ago. I have made it with the cinnamon many years ago and it's delicious. Yesterday for the Easter party, I made it without the cinnamon, not knowing if Peter liked cinnamon or not. I also thought about adding a tsp of vanilla at the time but didn't. It would probably benefit from a bit of vanilla if you don't add the cinnamon or some other flavoring.
If you don't have kærnemælk on hand, it is very easy to make. Pour 1 tsp. vinegar in a 1 cup measuring cup. Fill with milk. Let stand 5 minutes.
This recipe calls for ½ L kærnemælk which is just a little over 2 cups, so I followed the directions above for making my own. And I just did it first in the mixing bowl, before I melted the butter and sugar. Then it was ready by the time the rest of the ingredients were ready to mix.
I have made it years ago as a cake in a spring form. Yesterday I made it as cupcakes - it yields 20-24. It took roughly 15 minutes for the cupcakes to bake in a preheated oven. It could certainly also be made as a cake which sculpts builds into some shape, the texture is fairly easy to cut through.
Then I got all sick, so sick I couldn't keep my eyelids open - even with my 5 yr old screaming into my face...so that took up rest of my week. Because of being ill, I had to miss a rare mommy lunch (no kids, no men). B-ummer. Last night, My husband ended up making the vegetarian egg rolls that I was planning on bringing to the lunch. They turned our very pretty this time around, and I'm sure they were fabulous, but my palate was just not responding.
So I've said I didn't bake. Well today I decided to. We are getting together with friends. Just a picnic at our favorite park to let the boys play together. I thought about buying something, but then we always have a problem finding cakes without eggs. So I broke out trusty old Betty Crocker and made her coffee cake recipe with flax in place of eggs. It looks nice, I hope it tastes nice too.
Why didn't I make the raved about recipe given above? I have NO idea. I sit her writing this post and wonder, where has my mind gone?
5 comments:
Woot! A recipe that uses cinnamon! I have all these jars of cinnamon, for some reason, and rarely get to use the stuff since most Danes aren't really big on cinnamon. Or at least most of the Danes I know. When I lived in the states it was paprika. I'd end up with three jars of paprika and NO desire to make deviled eggs. Now in Denmark I go through a jar every six months. Really weird! I'll be trying this recipe as soon as I get some milk in this house again. Can you recommend a frosting recipe?
Frosting?...Actually, I was planning on asking my friend for her frosting recipe as well. It was quite tasty, and making frosting here has been a challenge for my husband.
If I get it, I'll be sure to post it.
Oh yeah - one more thing. On the cinnamon, we go through the stuff. It goes into my sons weekly batch of pancakes, and a spoon full goes in my yogurt each morning. Its not my favorite flavor, but I guess it’s a superfood/superspice so I try to gulp it down when possible.
Success! Sorta. I made one, very fat, 8 inch round cake. It took a bit longer in the oven to cook. An hour and fifteen minutes in total. I also sorta flubbed the glaze, too much milk. But it is tasty! And made the apartment smell so good. Unfortunately it wasn't ready when a guy came over to look at the rooms for rent. Although, he did decide to take a room. Perhaps he couldn't turn down the chance that SOME day he'll get cake!
I now have the ingredients for my friend's frosting - a combo of either:
Butter, sugar, and mascarpone
or
Butter, sugar, and Philadelphia cream cheese.
I have lots of problems with making a powdered sugar glaze, usually too my milk like what happened to you.
So I guess to sell a house, you bake bread, and to rent out a room you bake cake. I'd have to agree that it might have actually been not getting to have a taste that makes your place even more alluring.
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