Ávaxtakaka

Fruitcake

When I recently bought an old cookbook from 1945 at the flea market in Iceland, there were several recipes in the book that had been cut out of the newspaper, some recipe sheets from companies and the like - visually from the 70s or 80s, I would say. You can clearly see that the cookbook was actively used! This recipe for a “fruit cake” comes from one of the recipe sheets - well, with grated apples and raisins.

By the way, I like this cake best warm, with cold vanilla ice cream and chopped, roasted almonds on the side - really delicious!


Ingredients

2 apples
50 g raisins
50 g chopped almonds
160 g brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp grated lemon peel
1 tsp baking powder
180 g flour
50ml water
50 g melted butter
3 egg whites

Preparation

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

Wash, peel, core and grate the apples.

Then, in a large bowl, mix the grated apples with the raisins, chopped almonds, brown sugar, cinnamon, lemon zest, baking powder and flour.

Stir in the water and melted butter.

Finally, beat the egg whites until stiff and fold in carefully.

Then put the dough into a small springform pan (approx. 20 cm) lined with baking paper...

...and bake in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) for about 50 minutes.

Then take the cake out of the oven, let it cool down a little and then serve it slightly warm. As I said - I rave about vanilla ice cream and chopped, roasted almonds!

[Translated from here.]