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Cinnamon cake

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Magni
Oven
190 °C190 °C (375 °F)

Ingredients

  • 250 g butter9 oz butter
  • 200 g light brown sugar7 oz light brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 250 g plain flour9 oz plain flour
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • about 5 tbsp jam

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 190°C and grease a round cake tin (about 20 cm).Heat the oven to 375 °F and grease a round cake tin (about 8 in).
  2. Beat the butter and brown sugar together well, then add the eggs and beat very well.
  3. Then add all the dry ingredients (flour, cinnamon and baking powder) and the milk, and mix.
  4. Spread half the batter in the tin, spread the jam over it, then top with the rest of the batter.
  5. Bake at 190°C for about 30 minutes on the second-lowest shelf of the oven.Bake at 375 °F for about 30 minutes on the second-lowest shelf of the oven.
  6. Turn the cake out of the tin straight away.

Notes

  • The larger (1½) batch bakes at 190°C for about 40–50 minutes.The larger (1½) batch bakes at 375 °F for about 40–50 minutes.
  • A later note (in blue ink) on dividing the batter and jam between two 20 cm tins: 430 g batter + 125 g jam + 200 g batter, and 200 g batter + 135 g jam + the rest of the batter. Baked at 190°C for 35 + 10 minutes.A later note (in blue ink) on dividing the batter and jam between two 8 in tins: 15 oz batter + 4½ oz jam + 7 oz batter, and 7 oz batter + 5 oz jam + the rest of the batter. Baked at 375 °F for 35 + 10 minutes.

Other batch sizes

1½ batch

  • 375 g butter13 oz butter
  • 300 g light brown sugar11 oz light brown sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 375 g plain flour13 oz plain flour
  • 3 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • 3 tbsp milk
  • about 6 tbsp jam

As she wrote it
Her page in the recipe book
Kanilkaka
(Magni)
250gr smjör - 200gr. púðursykur 2 egg - 250gr. hveiti - 2 tsk. kanill 2 tsk. lyftiduft - 2 msk. mjólk ca. 5 msk. Sulta.
Smjör + sykur hrært vel síðan egg (mjög vel) svo allt þurrefni + mjólk Sett í Ø helm. af deigi svo sultan síðan rest af deigi 190°c ca. 30 min. næst neðst
375gr. smjör - 300g. sykur - 3 egg - 3 kanill 375gr. hveiti - 3 lyftid. - 3 msk. mjólk ca. 6 msk. sulta.
Botnar teknir strax úr formi 190°c ca. 40-50 min.
4(or 30) 430 deig + 125 sulta + 200 deig í 2 form ((20cm) 200 deig + 135 sulta + deig rest) 190° -> 35 + 10 min