Danish Easter Cake Paaske Kage Recipes

POPPY-SEED CAKE - VALMUEFRøKAGE

Steps:

• Soak poopy seeds in the milk and vanilla overnight.
• Cream butter until soft. Add the sugar gradually and cream well.
• Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together.
• Blend the flour and poppy-seed mixtures alternately into the creamed butter mix. Blend well.
• Whip the egg whites until stiff and fold into mixture.
• Pour the batter into 2 buttered and lightly floured 8" layer cake tines, and bake 30 minutes in a preheated 350º oven.
• Let cool a little in the pans before turning out onto racks.
• If you wish you can cut each layer in half and spread filling between four layers. Whichever you choose to do, here's a suggestion for a mouth-watering between-the-layers spread:
• Beat the egg yolks until frothy. Mix sugar, cornstarch, milk and salt with the beaten yolks and cook in the top of a double boiler over hot water about 5 minutes.
• Stir constantly to keep the mixture from scorching.
• Grind nuts and add to cooked mixture with vanilla.
• Mix well, and spread between layers.
• Top the cake as follows:
• Stir the sugar with the rum until smooth. Add the water and beat well.
• Ice the sides and top of the cake. Sprinkle the ground nuts over the top.

DANISH DREAM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375°F. Prepare a 9-inch springform or round cake pan, greased and lined with baking parchment.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer, whisk the eggs, granulated sugar and vanilla sugar on a high speed for a few minutes, until white and light. Meanwhile, in a separate bowl, sift the flour and baking powder together.
• Carefully fold the flour into the egg mixture. Mix the milk with the melted butter in a jug/pitcher and carefully pour into the batter, folding it in until incorporated. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 35-40 minutes, or until almost done (try not to open the oven door for the first 20 minutes of the total baking time).
• To make the topping, put all the ingredients in a saucepan and gently melt together.
• Remove the cake from the oven and carefully spread the topping all over the cake. Return to the oven. Turn up the heat to 400°F and bake for a further 5 minutes.
• Leave cake to cool before eating, if you can (we are well aware it's hard to do that).