This little beauty is an Icelandic celebration cake. It's vanilla and almond sponge (or soft cookie) layered with prune and cardamom jammy filling, and is pretty yummy!
It's basically like a regular cake mix, except when you get a normal cake batter like this...
It's then rolled out into rounds and baked, to get these...
Then layer up! I finished mine with some almond glacé icing. The filling is as it says in the recipe, just prunes bubbled up with cardamom, a squeeze of lemon and blended. Practically a health food :)
So would I make it again? Yes, but with a few non-traditional changes I think. I wasn;t a huge fan of the prune filling, but the cake / cookie combo with a soft filling stayed fresh for ages and was a nice idea. Maybe a chocolate dough with marshmallow filling, or an almond cookie dough filled with a strawberry jam?...
Well done Iceland! Apparently this is traditionally eaten bit by bit over a long period of time, and I can see why, it really does last very well. And looks well impressive once you cut it!
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