Jólakaka

"Jólakaka" literally means "Christmas cake", but Icelanders don't see it that narrowly and like to serve their Jólakaka outside of the Christmas season.


Ingredients

200 g butter
200 g sugar
2 eggs
400 g flour
2 tsp baking soda
100 g raisins
1 tsp cardamom
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp lemon peel
150 ml milk


Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) (upper/lower heat).

In a large bowl, mix the butter and sugar, then add the eggs and beat until fluffy.

In a second bowl, mix the flour with the baking powder, raisins, cardamom, vanilla and grated lemon peel.

Then, in portions, alternately fold the dry ingredients and the milk into the butter-sugar mixture and stir carefully with a wooden spoon.

Line the loaf pan for the cake with baking paper and pour in the finished dough. Smooth the top of the dough in the mold as smoothly as possible.

Bake at 350 °F (180 °C) for about 60 minutes in the lower third of the oven.

Then let it stand covered for about 10 minutes, then turn the Jólakaka out of the mold.

Annotation:

The cake can also be frozen in portions so that you have something ready when unexpected guests come.

[Translated from here.]