Christmas coffee cake

My Christmas vacation started today, woohoooo for that! There probably won't be any updates for the next two weeks, so I leave you with a recipe for a Christmas-flavored coffee cake. It tastes sort of like gingerbread, and is deliciously soft. Recipe by Pirkka.

Happy holidays, everybody!

You will need:

• 2 dl heavy whipping cream
• 1 egg
• 1 dl sugar
• 1 dl molasses (syrup)
• 3 dl all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda (or 2 tsp baking powder)
• 1 tsp ground bitter orange peel (pomeranssinkuori)
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 0.5 tsp ground cloves
• 0.5 tsp ground ginger
• 35 g butter or margarine (melted)

Prep time: 20 minutes

Baking time: 40-50 minutes

What to do:

• Grease a small cake tin (or a loaf pan), and coat with breadcrumbs.
• Whisk the cream until whipped.
• In a separate bowl, beat the egg and sugar into a thick foam.
• Combine the dry ingredients in yet another bowl.
• Carefully fold the whipped cream into the egg-foam with a plastic spatula.
• Add the molasses, and then the dry ingredients, carefully stirring the dough.
• Finally, add the melted (and cooled) margarine and give the dough a final mixing.

 

• Pour the dough into the tin.
• Bake in the oven preheated to 175 C, at the lowest level, for about 20 minutes, then lower the temperature to 150 C, and bake for another 20-30 minutes.

• Wait for the cake to cool down a little, then flip it onto a large serving plate and cut into slices.