Norwegian Cardamom Cake Food

CARDAMOM CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180c fan.
• Grease and flour a 23cm round cake tin.
• Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl.
• Add butter, egg, and milk and stir to a smooth batter.
• Pour batter into tin, smoothing the surface with a spatula.
• Bake in the lower half of the oven for approx 30 minutes.
• Let cool before removing from tin.

NORWEGIAN CARDAMOM CAKE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease a 9-inch bundt pan with butter; dust with cookie crumbs. Set aside.
• Combine flour and baking soda in small bowl; set aside.
• Place sugar and butter in bowl of electric mixer; beat until light and fluffy, 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition, about 5 minutes total.
• Beat in cardamom and cinnamon.
• Add flour mixture; beat until just combined. Add sour cream; beat until smooth, about 1 minute.
• Pour batter into pan.
• Bake until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean, about 50 minutes.
• Let stand 5 minutes; turn out on a wire rack. Cool completely.
• Dust with confectioners' sugar.

NORWEGIAN SPICE COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine flour, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, salt, nutmeg and cardamom in bowl.
• Beat butter and sugar in large bowl until creamy.
• Beat in eggs and vanilla until fluffy.
• Stir in flour mixture.
• Divide dough in half; flatten into disks.
• Wrap in plastic.
• Refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Heat oven to 350°.
• Coat 3 ½ - 4 ½-inch cookie-cutter molds with nonstick cooking spray.
• On lightly floured surface with floured rolling pin, roll out half of dough ¼-inch thick.
• Press cutter molds gently into dough.
• Gently pull cookies out of molds.
• Place on ungreased baking sheets.
• Brush with egg white.
• Reroll scraps.
• Repeat with remaining dough.
• Bake in 350° oven 10-12 minutes, until golden.
• Remove to racks to cool.
• Store at room temperature or freeze.

NORWEGIAN HAZELNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Lightly grease the bottom of one 10 inch springform pan.
• Reserve 8 whole nuts for garnish.
• Pulse the remaining nuts in a food processor until ground, and reserve 1 tablespoon of ground nuts for garnish.
• Melt margarine or butter in a small saucepan over low heat, cool.
• In a large bowl beat eggs, sugar, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract until thick and lemon colored (about 2 to 3 minutes).
• Add flour, baking powder, salt, and ground nuts, mix well.
• Continue to beat mixture while slowly adding the cooled melted butter or margarine until blended (mixture will be thick).
• Spread batter into prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F.
• for 35 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan for 15 minutes then remove sides of pan.
• Remove pan bottom and invert onto a serving plate.
• Cover with a cloth towel and cool for another 30 minutes before glazing.
• To Make Glaze: In a medium saucepan bring whipping cream just to a boil, take off heat and stir in the semi-sweet chocolate chips (or milk chocolate) until melted and smooth.
• Stir in 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract.
• Spread glaze over top of cooled cake, allowing it to run down the sides.
• Sprinkle reserved ground nuts around top edge and arrange whole nuts over ground nuts.
• Enjoy!

ORANGE AND CARDAMOM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180C.
• Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, cardamom, cinnamon and salt in a large mixing bowl.
• In a separate bowl, beat the eggs together til smooth.
• Make a well in the centre and add orange juice, canola oil, orange and lemon zests, vanilla essence and eggs.
• Mix well til light and fluffy.
• Spoon into cake tin (not sure of size, just guessed).
• Bake for 50mins or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
• Leave to cool.
• Prepare glaze; whisk all ingredients together, poke a fork all over the top of the cake and pour mixture over while still warm.
• Leave to cool completely.

YARNALL FAMILY'S FYRSTEKAKE (NORWEGIAN CARDAMOM-ALMOND TART)

Steps:

• For crust:
• Whisk flour, baking powder, cardamom, and salt in a medium bowl; set aside. Using an electric mixer, beat 1/2 cup butter and sugar in a medium bowl until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in egg yolk and milk. With mixer running on low speed, gradually add dry ingredients and beat just until thoroughly combined.
• Pat dough into a ball; break off one-quarter of dough. Form each piece into a ball. Flatten balls into disks. Cover separately and chill dough disks for at least 2 hours or overnight.
• For filling and assembly:
• Butter tart pan. Break larger dough disk into small pieces and scatter over bottom of tart pan. Using your fingertips, press dough onto bottom and up sides of pan. Use the flat bottom of a measuring cup to smooth the surface and trim the edges. Roll out smaller dough disk to about 1/8" thick. Using decorative cookie cutters, cut out shapes and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Cover and chill crust and cutouts for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Pulse almonds, powdered sugar, cardamom, and nutmeg in a food processor until nuts are finely ground. Transfer dry ingredients to a large bowl. Using an electric mixer, beat egg whites and vanilla in a medium bowl until medium peaks form. Gently fold egg whites into dry ingredients.
• Whisk egg yolk and 2 teaspoons water in a small bowl to blend. Fill chilled crust with almond mixture; smooth top. Arrange cutouts on top and brush cutouts with egg wash.
• Bake tart until crust and cutouts are golden brown and filling is set, 30-35 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack; let cool. DO AHEAD: Tart can be made 2 days ahead. Store airtight at room temperature.

APPLE CARDAMOM CAKE

Steps:

• Grease a 10 inch (4 L) bundt or angel food cake pan and dust lightly with flour.
• In a large mixing bowl, blend together the sugars.
• Beat in butter, eggs and vanilla to make a smooth batter.
• Stir together flour, the spices, baking soda and salt.
• Dust the nuts in 1/4 cup flour (extra).
• Mix the sifted dry ingredients into the batter. Quickly stir in the nuts and the apples.Transfer to the prepared pan.
• Bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until a skewer or toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
• Let the cake cool in the pan on a cooling rack. If possible, store for 1 day in an airtight container before cutting.
• Dust the top with icing sugar.