Description
Traditional Icelandic Happy Marriage Cake made with rhubarb and oats. So tasty!
Ingredients
Scale
For the rhubarb jam
- 1 lbs of rhubarb (peeled and diced)
- 1/4 cup of dark sugar
- 2 tbsp of maple syrup
- 1/4 tsp of vanilla powder
For the cake
- 1/4 cup of sugar
- 2 tbsp of dark sugar
- 3/4 cup of oats
- 1 cup of flour
- 1/2 tsp of cardamom
- 1 tsp of ginger powder
- 1/2 tsp of baking soda
- 1 egg (beaten)
- 1 stick of butter (softened and diced)
- 1 tsp of icing sugar
Instructions
Prepare the rhubarb jam
- Step 1 – Heat the rhubarb with dark sugar and maple syrup on medium heat for 10 minutes.
- Step 2 – Add the vanilla and continue to cook for 10 minutes. Leave to cool then put in the fridge.
Make the cake
- Mix the sugar, dark sugar, oats, flour, cardamom, ginger and baking soda in the bowl of your stand mixer and mix with the paddle attachment on low speed.
- Add the egg and continue to mix.
- Add the butter and mix until combined. Don’t over mix!
- Put in a plastic wrap in refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C)
- Cut a third of the dough and put aside.
- Roll the 2/3 of the dough 1/3 inch thin and put the dough in a 8 inches pastry ring. Add the rhubarb jam.
- Add the rest of the dough over the jam by making some small pieces.
- Bake for 25 minutes. Leave to cool.
- Sprinkle with icing sugar.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Cuisine: Icelandic
