Loviisa Local Customs

Recipe for the famous

Runeberg´s cakes (Runebergin tortut)

created by his wife Ulrika:



1 egg

1,5 dl sugar

1 dl coffee cream

1 dl ground almond

2 dl bread or cake crumbs/ rusk flour (Runeberg´s wife was so economical...)

1,5 dl melted butter (~150 gr)

1,5 dl wheat flour

1 tsp baking powder

For decoration strawberry or rasberry jam, icing

Whisk the egg and the sugar until they become a white foam. Add the cream, almonds, bread crumbs and the melted butter, mixing well. Add in the end the wheat flour and the baking powder (already mixed together earlier). Put the batter to 12-16 muffin moulds and bake in a 225 C degree preheated oven for about 15 minutes. Decorate first with a dollop of jam in the middle of the cake, then with the icing, making a circle aroud the jam. You can also moisten the cakes with some rum, punch or liqueur.

To be eaten at Runeberg´s Day 5th of February with schnaps.





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