The Cake of Salmensaari

Tomorrow, on 5th of February is the day of Johan Ludvig Runeberg in Finland. This is an annual festivity, and as for many similar days pastries are related to them. Mr. Runeberg was a Finnish poet and writer, and he is considered as the national poet of Finland. So a very important man, but this ain't a Finnish history lesson, so enough of history and towards baking ;-)

Common tradition is to bake little tarts on the day of Runeberg. This year I decided to bake a cake instead. The recipe of the cake is not the same as for the tarts, but it is very close to the texture and taste compared to the the original tart recipe. The name of the cake is the Cake of Salmensaari. And I won't bore you anymore with history lessons, so I won't even try to find out where does the name of cake comes from.

Simply, as far as the equipment for this recipe is conserned, you need three bowls. Fill the first one with one decilitre of almond flour or groats, one declitre of breadcrumbs and one and a half decilitres of wheat flour. The the second bowl you can mix two decilitres of sour cream and one tea spoon of baking powder. What about the third bowl then? Mix 150 grams of butter, one and a decilitres of sugar and two eggs. Finally, add the mixtures of two first bowls the the butter-sugar-egg mixture.

Add the mixture of three mixtures (boy I am witty with the mixture word!) to a cake tin and bake the cake in 175 degrees about 30 to 40 minutes.
I baked it for 40 minutes.

When the cake has cooled down, you can moisture it with rum-water mixture or with apple, orange or lemon juice.

This cake is the kind of "after few days it gets even better", so I am excited to serve this the day after tomorrow for my guests!

Quite a person this Mr. Runeberg as we can cook delicious tarts and cakes on his day!