Swedish cardamom cake
This cake is so easy to make with a tender, moist crumb and flecked with aromatic cardamom.
Servings: 12 approx (1 cake)
Calories: 212kcal
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Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all purpose flour plain flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ tablespoon cardamom ideally freshly ground
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup unsalted butter room temperature or at least cut in small pieces
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup milk whole/full fat recommended
- 1 tablespoon powdered sugar (optional, approximate, to top)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F/175C and line the base of an 8in/20cm springform round cake pan/tin. If you don't have a liner, at least grease it on the base and sides.
- In a small-medium bowl, sift or whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and cardamom. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until the mixture is relatively glossy and the sugar is starting to dissolve. Add the eggs one at a time and mix in well. Mix in the milk so that it is well incorporated.
- Add the flour mixture into the butter-egg mixture and stir until combined but try not to over-mix.
- Pour the mixture into the lined cake pan/tin and spread the mixture to the edges with a spatula and flatten out the top. Bake for approximately 35-45 minutes until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean and the cake is a gentle golden brown color.
- Leave to cool on a cooling rack for at least 10 minutes before loosening around the edges to remove from the cake tin. Once cool, sift a little powdered sugar (icing sugar) on top before serving.
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Notes
It's best to use a relatively fine white sugar for this (regular sugar is usually fine as long as it is not too coarse a grain).
This cake quantity also works as a loaf - cooking time should be roughly the same.
You can also make this as a bundt cake, if you prefer - for a 10 cup capacity bundt, you double everything but make it otherwise the same. Baking time will need to be increased to around an hour.
If you prefer, instead of dusting with powdered sugar after, for a round/loaf cake you can add some pearl sugar to the top of the batter before baking.
Nutrition
Calories: 212kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 49mg | Sodium: 115mg | Potassium: 99mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 296IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 45mg | Iron: 1mg
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