When I am a bit off colour some days, therapeutic baking is all I need. One such day was yesterday. Baked a simple Vanilla Wreath Shaped Sponge Cake. In Denmark this type of cake is called Kransekake and are specially made to mark special occasions like Weddings, Christmas, Confirmation, New Year's Eve, Birthdays, Anniversaries etc. During these occasions this kind of wreath cakes are made with multiple concentric layers of cakes placed on top of each other to make a steep cone shaped cake stuck to each other with white icing. Ideally these cakes are hard to touch but chewy on the inside. Mine however, was a mixture of a traditional English Sponge Cake and the Danish Kransekake where I stuck to the recipe of the former and the shape of the latter. And of course did not go for multi-layered but a single layer only.
So here goes the recipe and the MOP:
Break 3 eggs and beat them with 3/4 cups of sugar. Add the sugar little by little as you beat the eggs. Beat it till the sugar is fairly dissolved and the mixture appears pale yellow in colour. Then add 3/4 cups of sunflower oil/olive oil/butter and beat it till it is completely dissolved in the mixture. add a tsp of Baking Powder and a tsp of Vanilla essence and beat. Then add 3/4 cups of sieved plain flour. Take off the mixture and fold the flour into the mixture. Line a baking tray with butter/oil and dust it with flour. add the mixture and bake it for about 25-30 minutes at 180 degrees or till a tooth pick comes out clean. Enjoy the warm cake with some whipped cream or just dust it with some icing sugar on top.
