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Last updated: 20 May 2010

Icelandic Christmas Cake

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  • Ready in: 1 hour 10 mins
Icelandic Christmas Cake
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  • Prep: 10 mins  Cook: 1 hour
  • Serves: 15
This is a good everyday cake filled with sultanas and flavoured with lemon and cardamom. You'll want to make it more often than only once a year at Christmas!

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Ingredients

200g caster sugar
175g butter
2 eggs
300g plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
175ml milk
75g sultanas
1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom

Preparation method

1. Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4. Grease one 28cm loaf tin.
2. Cream the butter and the sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at time beating well after each one. Stir in the milk, lemon and cardamom flavourings. Stir in the flour and the baking powder.
3. Sift a little flour over the sultanas then stir them into the batter. Pour the batter into the greased bread tin and bake for 55 to 60 minutes.

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  • Tweak: ADELIESE Used different ingredients:

    I could not find cardamom flavouring and so used 1 tsp. cardamom instead. I have made this three times. Once according to the original recipe, once with an extra egg yolk, and once with candied orange peel instead of sultanas. All turned out really well.

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    Tweak: Da Shast Used different ingredients:

    Wonderful cake! I was just in Iceland and had a cake very similar. Thanks for sharing! One tip: don't worry about trying to track down cardamom extract - just use 1/2 tsp cardamom instead.

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  • Review: PUMPKINISLAND

    Very good. My family is Icelandic and my Amma used to make something very similar, a nice change from vinetarta...

    Posted: 18 Jul 2008 Easy

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Nutrition

  • Calories 240.5kcal
  • Protein 3.6g
  • Sugars 17.5g
  • Total Fat 10.3g
  • Saturated Fat 6.1g
  • Salt 174.4mg