Kanilterta

Cinnamon cake

My youngest child had a birthday last week.

Of course I baked him a birthday cake and since he liked the cinnamon cake ("kanilkaka") so much in the summer, he got a cinnamon cake for his birthday this year:

Two layers of cinnamon cake and delicious buttercream.

Ingredients

Ingredients for 2 bases

300 g melted butter

320 g flour

240 g white sugar

200 g brown sugar

4 large eggs

2 tsp ground vanilla

1 pinch of salt

4 tsp cinnamon

Ingredients for the buttercream

250 g butter

500 g powdered sugar

4 Tbsp baking cocoa

2 Tbsp cream

1 pinch of ground vanilla

1 Tbsp cappuccino powder

Preparation

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

Let the butter slowly melt.

Place the flour, sugar, eggs, ground vanilla, salt and cinnamon in a large bowl,...

...add the melted butter...

... and mix everything thoroughly.

Line two springform pans with baking paper and pour the dough evenly into both pans.

Bake the cake in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) for 20 minutes (test with a toothpick!).

Then let the two bases cool and then carefully remove them from the mold.

For the cream, put all the ingredients in a bowl...

... and mix thoroughly into a uniform cream.

Place the first cake layer on a cake plate or similar and spread about a third of the cream on the bottom layer.

Place the second layer on top...

... and spread with the second third of the buttercream.

Finally, decorate the top of the cake as desired and pipe the last third of the cream all around.

Because this cake was a birthday cake, candles were of course placed on top before it was served. Happy Birthday!

Bon appetit!

[Translated from here.]