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Spice cake with chocolate

On the first day of the old Icelandic winter month of Þorri, Husbands' Day, bóndadagur, is traditionally celebrated in Iceland. This year the bóndadagur was on January 25th and we baked a spice cake with chocolate for our best husband, father and now even grandfather - it tasted good!

Oh, I used some winter spice in the glaze for a wintery taste. The spice mixture mainly contained cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and ginger. Of course, you can also just add a spice and mix it yourself. But with a pinch of spice the cake tastes a little more intense.


Ingredients

2 eggs
200 g brown sugar
200 g margarine
380 g wheat flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baker's yeast
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1 Tbsp baking cocoa
250 ml milk

220 g powdered sugar
2 Tbsp baking cocoa
1/2 tsp winter spice
3 - 4 Tbsp warm water


Preparation

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

In a large bowl, beat eggs, sugar and margarine until fluffy.

Then add the solid ingredients and stir in.

Finally, pour in the milk and mix everything into a smooth dough.

Then put the dough into a baking pan lined with baking paper (approx. 26 - 28 cm in diameter) and smooth it out.

Then bake the cake at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for about 25 minutes until the cake passes the toothpick test.

Take the cake out of the oven, let it cool briefly and if necessary, if it is very uneven at the top (like mine here), straighten it a little.

Mix the ingredients for the glaze...

...and spread it over the cake and decorate it to taste.

Besti pabbi & afi!

The best dad and grandpa!

[Translated from here.]