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OLD FASHIONED "MARRIAGE HAPPINESS" CAKE

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Old Fashioned "Marriage Happiness" Cake

Every husband loves this cake. Therefore it was given this name and is one of the old classic Icelandic cakes wives used to make if they wanted to spoil their husbands. It is not too sweet and goes gr..   Read More

 


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INGREDIENTS

  • Cooking Time: 30
  • 160g flour
  • 160g oat meal
  • 170g margarine
  • 130g sugar
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • Some prune or rhubarb jam

DIRECTIONS

Mix ingredients with your fingers and fill a round buttered and flour dusted cake form with most of it, flattening it into the form.


Add prune or rhubarb jam onto the dough and crumble the rest of the dough on top.


Bake at 200°C for 30 minutes.


RECIPE BACKSTORY

Every husband loves this cake. Therefore it was given this name and is one of the old classic Icelandic cakes wives used to make if they wanted to spoil their husbands. It is not too sweet and goes greatly with a cup of coffee. And VIP not only husbands love this cake :-)

This is how my dear grandmom made this cake.

RECIPE REVIEWS

Oct/20/2007 02:10 pm andromeda
the women used to bake this one for their husbands when they were coming home from sea ... last time I made this for my man I used my German-Plum Jam (recepie on my profile ) ;o) and it works girl ;-) i cant imagine a man who doesnt like this one ... ;o)
Nov/18/2008 09:11 am runnergirl630
Is there any chance of getting American conversions for the ingredients? I have looked at a few tables and they seem to vary significantly. This sounds like a delicious, easy breakfast or dessert. thanks! Molly
Nov/18/2008 01:11 pm andromeda

Nov/18/2008 01:11 pm andromeda
runnergirl check out my recipie box, i got the us - europe measure help in it ;) and while you are there, check out my plum jam, when you use that one its just sooo homemade tasty

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