Christmas wreath 2015

When a baby is born in Denmark a nurse is assigned to visit the family to check and monitor the health of the baby (and the mother). 

The nurse; Susanne, who came to visit Christopher was a bubbly lady, who probably sensed that her services weren’t really required and therefore mainly talked about her house in the Swedish country side, cooking and her grown children. On several of her visits I had decorated cakes sitting on the kitchen bench ready to be sent of to friend and family. Susanne always made such kind comments about the cakes, and indicated that she wouldn’t mind a taste. Her last visit was scheduled for December, so I decided that she should have a cake as a good-bye present.

The cake was the traditional Christmas cake better know as P’s brown cake:

Melt 100 grams of butter, 100 grams of sugar and 100 grams of syrup (don’t boil too much as it will turn in to a thick caramel and burn).

Once cooled down a bit add

1. 2 tea spoons of cinnamon, 1 tea spoon of clove and 1 tea spoon of cardamom,
2. 1 tea spoon of natron (hydrated sodium carbonate) dissolved in 1 dl of buttermilk and
3. 250 grams of flour.

Poor into a well greased baking tray and baked for approx. 20 min at 180 degrees.

The cake was covered in 1:1 ganache (100 ml of boiling cream poured over 100 grams of fine chopped chocolate, stirred and chilled until it feels like butter).

Then there was a layer of marzipan cut out with a leaf cutter.