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Kärleksmums
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Soft tray-baked chocolate cake with mocha icing and coconut, cut into neat squares and served as one of Sweden’s most recognisable coffee-table bakes.
Ingredients
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- 150 g butter
- 2 eggs
- 3 dl sugar
- 1.5 dl milk
- 4.5 dl plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 75 g butter for the icing
- 0.75 dl strong coffee
- 0.5 dl cocoa powder
- 4 dl icing sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- Desiccated coconut for finishing
Good to know before you start
Small details that often make the cooking go more smoothly.
- Read through every step before you start and measure everything first.
- This recipe is written for 20 servings and Swedish kitchen measures.
- Taste and adjust at the end if you cook with salty stock, cheese, soy sauce, or fond.
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Method
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- 1
Preheat the oven to 200 C and line a small traybake tin with baking paper.
- 2
Melt the butter for the cake and let it cool slightly.
- 3
Whisk the eggs and sugar until pale and fluffy.
- 4
Stir in the milk and melted butter.
- 5
Mix the flour, baking powder, and cocoa and fold into the batter.
- 6
Spread the batter in the tin and bake for about 15 minutes. Let the cake cool.
- 7
Boil the icing ingredients except the coconut and stir into a glossy icing.
- 8
Spread the icing over the cooled cake and sprinkle with coconut. Let it set before cutting into squares.
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14 ingredients and 8 steps from prep to serving.
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Recipe source: Kärleksmums verifierad mot Arlas klassiska recept. Original link
Recipe image: Wikimedia Commons. Licensierad Commons-bild av kärleksmums.
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