Traditional Spice Cake
The name of this cake means “dark bread” in Nordic languages. In earlier times, spice cakes were called dark bread. Old recipe books marked these cakes as expensive because they contained spices. Spices were costly, so baking with them was a luxury.
Ingredients
- 500 g wheat flour
- 250 g butter
- 375 g brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum)
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves (Syzygium aromaticum)
- 1 teaspoon ground cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum)
- 250 ml milk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
Instructions
- Mix the butter and sugar together until the mixture becomes light in color.
- Add the eggs one at a time. Mix well after each egg.
- Add the milk, spices, baking soda, baking powder, and wheat flour. Stir everything together until well combined.
- Grease a cake pan with butter. Dust the inside lightly with wheat flour.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake at 170°C (340°F) for 75 minutes.
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