NORWEGIAN CULTURE
Ingredients
1 chocolate cake
1 packet of raspberry jelly, or alternatively raspberry jam
7 oz cream
2 tablespoons of caster sugar
Vanilla essence for taste
1 tube of marzipan
Melting chocolate chips or chocolate ice cream syrup for decoration
Icing sugar for rolling marzipan
Directions
Step 1
Make a plain chocolate cake and cool. Cut into two cake layers.
Step 2
Make your jelly/jam to directions but with reduced water for extra firmness. Line a square container or cake pan as big as the cake with plastic wrap and pour the lukewarm jelly in. When set, it is easy to lift out and place down on the cake base. Peel off the plastic. (If the jelly thing is too much of a pain then just spread a thick layer of raspberry jam on the cake base.)
Step 3
Make the cream filling. Whip the cream. Before it becomes thick add in two tablespoons of sugar and some drops of vanilla essence. Whip cream until stiff. Save a quarter for the top of the cake. Spread the rest over jelly. Place the cake lid on top. Place cake in the fridge.
Step 4
Roll out the marzipan. Use icing sugar as ‘flour dust’ to help you roll out the marzipan. Rolling on baking paper helps the marzipan not stick the the bench and helps to roll it onto the cake. We use a rolling pin to make sure the marzipan is spread thin and evenly. Take the cake out of the fridge and spread the rest of the cream on top and on the sides. This will help the marzipan roll on and move a little for adjustments. Pick up the baking paper with marzipan and flip it onto the cake. Peel off the paper. Press down the marzipan on the sides and cut off the excess.
Step 5
Melt the chocolate chips in a pot over a pot of hot water. When the chocolate has melted and is runny, drizzle it in zig-zags over the top of the marzipan. Or… be lazy like us and get your thick chocolate ice cream topping tube (the ones that set hard are great) and squirt zig-zag patterns across your cake.
This recipe is adapted from My Little Norway.