Kladdkaka
![]() Kladdkakawith decoration | |
Alternative names | Chocolate mud cake |
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Type | Chocolate cake |
Course | Dessert |
Place of origin | Sweden |
Main ingredients | Sugar,flour,butter,eggandcocoa |
Kladdkakais a popular Swedish dessert. This dense, compact cake similar to amolten chocolate cakefeatures a crisp exterior and soft, gooey interior. The ingredients are flour, eggs, butter, sugar, vanilla essence and cocoa powder. The main difference betweenkladdkakaand other cakes is the lack ofbaking powder.It is sometimes eaten withwhipped creamorvanilla ice creamand raspberrycoulisand/or raspberries.[1][2][3][4]
The name derives from the Swedish wordkladdig,meaning'sticky'or'messy'.
Since 2008, the officialkladdkakaday is 7 November.[5]
History
[edit]There are two main theories regarding the cake's origin. In 1938, when baking powder was difficult to get hold of in Sweden, Gudrun Isaksson, a woman fromÖrebro,used an Americanbrownierecipe and simply left out the baking powder.[6]The other theory is verified,[7]but both may still be accurate. In 1968, Margareta Wickman, was served a chocolate cake at a restaurant in Paris and was given the recipe. She later published the recipe in a couple of different variants in the Swedish magazineVecko-Journalen,during the late 1970s.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Swedish chocolate cake (kladdkaka)".scrummylane.com.RetrievedMarch 1,2020.
- ^"I dag firar vi kladdkakans dag".Göteborgs-Posten(in Swedish).Retrieved4 April2018.
- ^"Marabous klassiska mjölkchoklad blir kladdkaka - Mitt kök".Expressen(in Swedish). 19 February 2018.Retrieved4 April2018.
- ^Johansen, Signe (24 November 2011).Secrets of Scandinavian Cooking... Scandilicious.Saltyard Books. p. 180.ISBN978-1444703924.
- ^Karlsson, Ulrika (2015-11-09)."I dag firar vi kladdkakans dag".gp.se.Archived fromthe originalon 7 September 2018.Retrieved11 September2017.
- ^"Kladdkakan firas idag – krockar med Gustav Adolfsbakelsen".Sveriges Television.6 November 2015.Retrieved5 April2018.
- ^"Kladdkakan".Sveriges Radio(in Swedish). 2012-08-29.Retrieved2024-06-28.
- ^Hammarkrantz, Oskar (2018-04-03)."90-talets populäraste maträtter – vilka håller måttet i dag?".Svenska Dagbladet(in Swedish).ISSN1101-2412.Retrieved2024-06-28.