Gudrun’s Norwegian Chocolate Raisin Cake

Name: Gudrun’s Norwegian Chocolate Raisin Cake
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Makes: 16-portion cake
Cuisine: Norway
Ingredients: ¼ tsp ground mace or nutmeg; ¼ tsp ground allspice or cinnamon; 4 tbs milk; 1 tsp icing sugar; 200 g / 7 oz ground hazelnuts; 160 g / 5½ oz seedless raisins; 160 g / 5½ oz candied orange peel, diced; 160 g / 5½ oz plain dessert chocolate, crushed or coarsely grated; 175 g / 6 oz butter; 175 g / 6 oz golden caster sugar; 200 g / 7 oz plain flour; 3 eggs; 1 tsp baking powder

Preparation info

Makes:
16
-portion cake

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

Cakes

By Geraldene Holt

Published 2011

About

Unusual for the combination of chocolate, spices and dried fruit, this cake has a lovely flavour. The handwritten recipe arrived from Norway via a friend who asked me to try it.

Ingredients

175 g / 6 oz butter
175 g / 6

Europe
Norway
Cake
Vegetarian
Nordic

Method

Cream the butter with the sugar until pale. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Stir in the flour sifted with the baking powder and spices, then add the milk. Mix in the ground hazelnuts, raisins, orange peel and chocolate until well combined. Spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tin and smooth level.

Bake in the preheated oven until the cake is just shrinking from the sides of the tin.