Súkkulaðikaka með grilluðu sykurpúðaþaki

Chocolate cake with grilled marshmallow topping

When my daughter was recently leafing through one of my old Icelandic baking books and I translated to her that "með sykurpúðaþaki" means "with a marshmallow roof", which she immediately fell in love with.

Okay, a look at the recipe showed that it doesn't actually use ready-made marshmallows, but basically the same ingredients that you use for marshmallows. Like I tried the recipe.

The result is really a “hardcore chocolate cake” with a top that actually tastes like marshmallows. My daughter was thrilled, and most of us were too - but the cake is very chocolaty, very sweet and very filling. But also very tasty in small portions! So if you like chocolate!

Ingredients

Ingredients for the soil

160 g oatmeal cookies

2 Tbsp baking cocoa

50 g melted butter

Ingredients for the filling

200 g dark chocolate (chopped)

250 ml whipping cream

1 egg

Ingredients for the “roof”

100 g sugar

1/2 tsp cream of tartar

1 egg white

50 ml boiling water

1 pinch of ground vanilla

Preparation

Crush the oatmeal cookies thoroughly using a rolling pin, blender or similar.

Mix with the cocoa and melted butter.

Line a springform pan (22 cm) with baking paper and press the biscuit mixture thoroughly onto the bottom, forming a slight edge at the top.

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

Gently bring the whipping cream to the boil in a saucepan.

Remove the pan from the heat, add the chopped chocolate and let it melt.

Add the egg and beat gently until a nice, uniform mixture is formed.

Then pour the chocolate mixture onto the cookie base...

... and bake in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat in the middle of the oven for 20 minutes.

Take the cake out of the oven and let it cool.

For the "marshmallow roof", put all the ingredients in a tall mixing bowl and beat thoroughly for at least 5 minutes.

Then spread the mixture on the cake, if in doubt, use a tablespoon to pull it up a little in some places so that an interesting surface is created and then...

.... place in the oven under the grill function until the surface is lightly browned.

Then let it cool down briefly and then serve.

Bon appetit!

Sykurpúði - marshmallow

Marshmallow is a foamy confectionery made primarily from sugar , whipped egg whites and gelling agents . In the past, the juice from the roots of a plant named "marshmallow" was used as a gelling agent. Hence the name of the sweet. Later, gum arabic was initially used as a gelling agent; today it is usually gelatin, agar-agar or carrageenan. Here in the recipe, cream of tartar is used to stabilize the egg whites ( vínsteinslyftiduft in Icelandic).

By the way, the Icelandic word for " marshmallow" is " sykurpúði" , which literally means " sugar pillow ". Very clear, I think!

[Translated from here.]