Happy marriage cake
- Published: 22 Sep 15
- Updated: 18 Mar 24
A traditional Icelandic recipe that uses tart rhubarb jam, muscovado and oats in this cake come crumble recipe.
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Serves 12
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Hands-on time 20 min, oven time 30 min, plus cooling
Ingredients
- 250g unsalted butter, softened
- 200g dark muscovado sugar
- 200g caster sugar
- 1 large free-range egg, beaten
- 250g plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 250g rolled oats
- 200g rhubarb jam or rhubarb and ginger jam
- 100g strawberry jam
Method
- Line a 23cm, deep loose- bottomed cake tin with baking paper. Heat the oven to 180°C/ 160°C fan/gas 4. In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugars with an electric mixer until pale.
- Beat in the egg, a little at a time. Once all the egg has been added, sift in the flour and bicarb, then add the oats and carefully fold in using a metal spoon.
- Set one third of the mixture aside. Spoon the remaining mix into the prepared tin and smooth the surface with the back of a spoon. Mix together the rhubarb and strawberry jams, then spread over the mixture. Top with the reserved mixture, leaving a few gaps so the jam peeks through.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until the cake mix is set and golden but still quite gooey. Serve topped with a dollop of softly whipped cream, if you like, and enjoy with a cup of tea.
- Recipe from August 2015 Issue
Nutrition
- Calories
- 510kcals
- Fat
- 19.5g (10.8g saturated)
- Protein
- 5.3g
- Carbohydrates
- 77.3g (49.9g sugars)
- Fibre
- 2.6g
- Salt
- 0.3g
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The finished cake will keep for 3 days in an airtight container.
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Really yummy! Pretty much a cakey flapjack which is perfect comfort food. Everyone loved it. Would definitely make again. I couldn’t find rhubarb jam and didn’t have time to make any but strawberry worked out just fine. I imagine rhubarb would give it a bit of tartness, so would make my own next time.