KLADDKAKA

Oh how I love Kladdkaka. It's a traditional Swedish dessert that is in fact a chocolate fudge cake! Chocolate cake is okay, but nothing satisfies me like a a good chewy fugde brownie, so this easy cake is just perfect fix for me. My thanks to Veronika, my Swedish friend who shared the recipe with me :)

Okay...so it's not a pretty cake, well it was never meant to be a pretty dessert really. Most cafes I've seen here serve it with just a simple dusting of powdered sugar. No frills, but I kid you not, scrumptious =D

Here's how to make your own slice of heaven!

100g butter (melted and set aside)
2 eggs
1 1/4 cup sugar
150 ml flour
60 ml cocoa
1tsp salt
5ml vanilla

preheat oven to 175 degrees C

prepare your baking tin: grease it with butter and then coat it thinly with breadcrumbs (this cake will stick otherwise)

Beat the eggs with the sugar until fluffy

Add all the ingredients except the butter into the egg-sugar mixture and combine well

Add in the butter little by little, mixing well after each addition

Pour into the pan and bake for 20-25 mins

The cake is ready when a tester comes out clean, but it should still be soft in the middle and not well-done, you will also notice that it is a very dense cake and will not rise much

Let the cake cool in the pan so that it can become chewy and 'fudgey'

N'joy! A small slice is all you need to be overcome with the pleasure sugar and chocolate bring, as this is one intense dessert experience...which is good, because then the kladdkaka will last longer =)

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Communal living means caring and sharing. Whenever anyone bakes, we usually bring portions over to each others' apartments. This is how I divided the cakes I made today :) It's so fun living with so many cool, appreciative people around you.