Sítrónu skyrterta

Lemon Skyr Cake

I guess you never can have enough recipes for skyr cake, skyr pies and skyr desserts. Here I present a "no bake" version of skyr cake with fresh lemon and lemon curd. It's gorgeously fruity!


Ingredients


200 g oat biscuits
75 g unsalted butter
250 g whipping cream
350 g vanilla skyr
60 g instant gelatine powder
3 eggs
125 g brown sugar
1 organic lemon
4 Tbsp lemon curd


Preparation

Thoroughly crumble the oat biscuits.

Melt butter in a pan,  ...

...add the biscuits crumbs and brown them lightly.

Then place the butter biscuit mass in a baking tin (approx. 22 cm) laid out with baking paper. Press it in the tin firmly.

Whip the cream.

Mix vanilla skyr with instant gelatine, some grated lemon peel and 1 Tbsp pressed lemon juice.

Carefully pull the whipped cream under the skyr mixture.

Beat the eggs and the brown sugar until frothy.

Stir the skyr cream with the sugar-egg mixture to form a smooth cream.

Place the cream on the bottom of the cake, ...

...as smooth as possible..

...and put the cake for about 2 hours into the fridge, ...

...so that the cake becomes firm.

Then remove it from the mold and spread it carefully with lemon curd. (Please do not place the lemon curd in the refrigerator before. Otherwise it will be too hard!)

Let it cool in the fridge for at least one further hour. Then serve well cooled.

[Translated from here.]

Pítsa með fiskmeti

Seafood pizza

Big excitement in Iceland - does pineapple really belong on a pizza?

The Icelandic President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson had recently visited the Menntaskólinn in Akureyri when asked by a student whether he liked to eat "Pizza Hawaii" and replied that he was fundamentally against pineapple and other fruit on pizza, if he could, he would have that banned.

A heated discussion ensued - about pizza toppings.

And the president corrected on Facebook: He thinks pineapple is good - just not on pizza. He is also pleased that as Icelandic president he does not have the power to legally ban pineapple on pizza. And - he wouldn't want to live in a country where the president has absolute power.

Oh, but he still recommends pizza with seafood: "Ég mæli með fiskmeti á pítsu."

By the way, the American soldiers brought pizza to Iceland...

In light of current events, here is a recipe for pizza with seafood:


Ingredients for 2 pizzas

500 g flour
2 tsp coarse sea salt
1 pack of yeast
325 ml warm water

150 g fish fillet
150 g shellfish
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 large tomatoes
1 pinch of coarse sea salt
1 pinch of black pepper
1 Tbsp chopped parsley


Preparation

In a large bowl, mix the flour with the salt.

Dissolve the yeast in the warm water, add it to the flour and knead everything very thoroughly by hand.

Then divide into two parts, form a ball each and let it rise, covered, in a warm place for about 1/2 hour.

Preheat the oven to 425 °F (220 °C) upper/lower heat.

Roll out each dough ball as thinly as possible and somewhat circular on a baking tray lined with baking paper.

Wash the tomatoes, remove the stem and dice,...

...cut the fish fillet into bite-sized pieces.

In a bowl, mix the chopped tomatoes with the fish fillet, shellfish, oil, salt and pepper and chopped parsley.

Then spread the mixture over the pizza bases.

Bake the pizza in the oven at 425 °F (220 °C) upper and lower heat for about 10 minutes until the pizza is ready.

In this sense: "Eg mæli með fiskmeti á pítsu."

[Translated from here.]

Laugardagssnúðarnir

Source: timarit.is

Saturday rolls

This recipe originally comes from an Icelandic newspaper from February 1960.

“Saturday” means “Laugardagur” in Icelandic, literally “washing day”. Traditionally, washing was done on Saturday, both the laundry and the people themselves.

Since the housewives were busy doing laundry that day, the newspaper recommended that they quickly bake these quick, very filling rolls on Saturday morning and serve them to the family before their mother went to do the laundry and didn't have time to cook for lunch. And if she were lucky, there might be one last rolls left for the housewife on Sunday... well then - meal!


Ingredients for approx. 18 rolls

500 g flour
50 g sugar
1 pack of dry yeast
1 tsp salt
250 ml lukewarm milk
75 g melted margarine
1 egg

100 g butter
100 g sugar
2 tsp cinnamon

250 powdered sugar
250 g cream cheese
120 g margarine
1 tsp ground vanilla


Preparation

Mix the flour with the sugar, salt and dry yeast.

Add the lukewarm milk and melted margarine and stir.

Finally add the egg.

Knead the dough thoroughly and let it rise in a warm place for about 1/2 hour.

Then roll out the dough flat (approx. 25 cm x 35 cm).

Mix the sugar with the margarine and cinnamon until creamy...

...and spread on the rolled out dough.

Then roll up the dough as tightly as possible over the long side and cut into slices approx. 2 cm thick...

...and then let the rolls rise covered for another 1/4 hour. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

Then bake the rolls at 350 °F (180 °C) for about 15 minutes until they are golden brown.

Take the rolls out of the oven.

Mix the powdered sugar, cream cheese, margarine and vanilla together and pour about 1 teaspoon of the mixture onto the still warm rolls.

...and put about 1 teaspoon of the mixture on each of the still warm rolls.

Then carefully place the rolls in the refrigerator so that the coating becomes somewhat firm and serve well chilled.

By the way - the Old Icelandic winter month of Góa begins on Sunday between February 18th and 24th. On the first day of this month, Iceland traditionally celebrates Konudagur, or "Wives' Day". With this in mind, today on Sunday, February 19, 2017 - Happy Wife's Day everyone! Til hamingju með konudaginn!





[Translated from here.]

Köld áfasúpa

Cold buttermilk soup

Here's a recipe for a very nice, classic Icelandic (summer) soup - previously available in large quantities for random visitors or a quick snack for hungry workers on the farm.


Ingredients for 2 people

2 Tbsp brown sugar
grated lemon peel
500 ml buttermilk
1 egg yolk

1 Tbsp whipping cream
zwieback


Preparation

First mix the sugar, grated lemon peel and egg yolk in a high saucepan.

Then pour the buttermilk over it and stir until the sugar has dissolved.

Then chill the soup in the refrigerator.

To eat, serve the soup with a tablespoon of whipped cream and rusks.

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Litla skúffukaka með kókos

Small chocolate sheet cake with coconut

I've read about Marc from "Bake to the Roots " blog event Re-Create several times recently in various food blogs. The aim of the campaign (on the occasion of the 3rd birthday of his blog) is to become aware of his own development in his blog and to document this development. The event runs until February 18, 2017.

I find the topic really exciting... so I picked out one of my first recipes and "remodeled" the whole thing a bit and re-photographed it.

The classic Skúffukaka is THE typical Icelandic chocolate sheet cake that can be found almost everywhere in a wide variety of variations. For a change, I decided on a smaller recipe, with coconut flakes on the chocolate icing and, so to speak, to "emphasize" the coconut note, also with coconut flour. And with Skyr. But other than that I haven't changed much! :-)

Ingredients

300 g coconut flour

240 g brown sugar

60 g cocoa powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp cinnamon

120 g vanilla skyr

60 g melted margarine

60 g hot water

2 eggs

Ingredients for the casting

240 g powdered sugar

2 Tbsp cocoa powder

20 g melted margarine

1 tsp vanilla flavor

3 Tbsp hot coffee

2 Tbsp coconut flakes

Preparation

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

In a large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients for the dough together with a spoon..

...then add the wet ingredients one after the other and knead everything into a smooth dough.

Place in a small baking pan (approx. 20 x 20 cm) lined with baking paper, press firmly and bake in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for about 20 to 25 minutes.

When the cake is fully baked, take it out of the oven and start icing:

Mix the powdered sugar with the cocoa powder, then add the melted margarine, vanilla flavoring and hot coffee.

Cover the still warm cake with the icing...

...sprinkle directly with the coconut flakes and then allow to cool thoroughly.

So here's an overview: My Skúffukaka photos through the ages (2014 - 2016 - 2017). Although I now see a lot more in the current photos that still bothers me than before. :-)

In any case, many thanks to Marc for the great blog event, it was a nice impetus to get back to my “blog roots”!

[Translated from here.]

Heitt súkkulaði

Hot chocolate

It's not a really complex recipe, but sometimes it's just the right thing to warm your soul!


Ingredients for 2 servings

50 g dark chocolate
50 ml boiling water
1/2 liter milk
1 pinch of coarse sea salt

optionally some whipped cream
and some coffee spice, cinnamon or similar.


Preparation

Heat the water in a pot, but do not bring it to the boil.

Grate the chocolate into small pieces, add it to the hot water and let it melt while stirring constantly.

When the chocolate has melted, add the milk, stir in and bring everything to the boil briefly.

Finally, add a pinch of coarse sea salt, decorate with a whip of cream if available and perhaps a little coffee spice, cinnamon or similar, and then serve hot.

[Translated from here.]