Klassísk hjónabandssæla

Classic marital bliss

I think you can never have enough recipes for good marital happiness. So I tried out a very classic recipe for this popular Icelandic crumble cake with oat flakes and rhubarb jam when we had visitors over the weekend.


Ingredients

200 g soft butter
100 g brown cane sugar
2 eggs
150 g flour
200 g oat flakes
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baker's ammonia
1/2 tsp cinnamon
300 g rhubarb jam
2 Tbsp oat flakes


Preparation

Preheat the oven to 400 °F (200 °C) upper/lower heat.

Line a baking dish (approx. 20 x 30 cm) with greaseproof paper, folding the paper well so that it lies as smoothly as possible. Alternatively, you can of course also use baking paper.

In a large bowl, first beat the butter and sugar until fluffy.

Then add the eggs and mix.

Now add the flour, oat flakes, baking powder, staghorn salt and cinnamon and mix it into a nice dough.

Then put about 3/4 of the dough into the mold and press it carefully so that all corners are filled and the dough is evenly thick.

Now spread the jam over the dough.

Add 2 more tablespoons of oat flakes to the remaining dough, knead roughly and then spread the whole thing over the jam as a sprinkle.

Then bake the cake in the oven at 400 °F (200 °C) upper and lower heat for about 25 minutes until it has turned nice and golden brown.

Then let the marital bliss cool down, carefully remove it from the mold and serve it cut into pieces.

[Translated from here.]