Strawberry cake
- From
- Dagný
- Oven
- 175 °C175 °C (350 °F)
Ingredients
Cake layers
- 4 eggs
- 100 g sugar3½ oz sugar
- 2 tbsp plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 100 g chocolate, chopped3½ oz chocolate, chopped
- 100 g nuts, chopped3½ oz nuts, chopped
Filling and decoration
- strawberry juice
- whipping cream, whipped
- strawberries, crushed
- marzipan, rolled out
- berries
Method
Cake layers
- Heat the oven to 175°C. Grease two round tins of about 24 cm and line the bases with baking paper.Heat the oven to 350 °F. Grease two round tins of about 9 in and line the bases with baking paper.
- Whisk the eggs and sugar until very thick and pale.
- Mix the flour and baking powder with the chopped chocolate and nuts and fold gently into the egg mixture. Divide between the tins.
- Bake at 175°C for about 20–25 minutes on the bottom shelf. Let the layers cool.Bake at 350 °F for about 20–25 minutes on the bottom shelf. Let the layers cool.
Filling and decoration
- Moisten the cake layers with strawberry juice.
- Spread whipped cream and crushed strawberries between the layers.
- Lay rolled-out marzipan on top.
- Pipe cream up the sides and rosettes on top, and decorate with berries.
As she wrote it
Jarðaberjaterta
(Dagný)
4 egg - 100 gr. sykur - 2 msk. hveiti
1 tsk. lyftid. - 100 gr. súkkul.
100 gr. hnetur.
175°C í ca. 20-25 min. Neðsta rim
Bleyta botnana með jarðab. safa
Rjómi + marin jarðab. sett á
milli. Marsipan ofan á. Rjóma
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ofan á + ber