Marbled Cake / Tiger Cake

Grrrr! Hello friends, this week I will show you a recipe for marbled cake, or as I have always called it, Tiger cake :) This classic cake is basically 1/3 chocolate batter and 2/3 vanilla flavoured batter, but you could of course use two other flavours if you want, I guess the variations can be unlimited :)

Marbled Cake / Tiger Cake Recipe
200 grams of butter or margarine
2 1/2 deciliter sugar
3 eggs
4 deciliter flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 deciliter milk

Flavours:
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 tablespon vanilla sugar (or 1/2-1 lemon zest)

Put oven to 175 Celsius.
Grease and bread a baking pan size about 1 1/2 liter.
Stirr the margarine and the sugar white and smooth and add one egg at the time while continuing stirring.
Mix flour and baking powder and add to the egg mixture along with the milk little by little to avoid lumbs.
Put 1/3 of the batter in a bowl and add the cocoa.
Flavour the rest of the batter with vanilla suger or lemon zest.
Pour half of the vanilla batter into the baking pan, and then pour the coca batter on top. Finally add the last of the vanilla batter on top of the cocoa batter.
Use a fork and draw it around through all the layers a few times so the layers mix into each other.
Bake in the lower part of the oven for about one hour.

Have a great week folks!

Lemon Cake with Raspberry/Blueberry Jam and Vanilla Custard

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGELICA'S HANDICRAFTS - ONE YEAR HAS PAST!

Oh, I can't believe that the blog turns one year this weekend! It has been a wonderful year and I have blogged about many new projects. This year has made me realized that I actually can finish things and not just start them! As you probably have experienced this year I try to do different projects from week to week so you readers get variation. I hope you have enjoyed the past year's posts and keep coming back and always feel free to give me a comment :) As a birthday present for the blog I have started a Instagram profile today named angelicashandicrafts where I will start posting pictures of projects and other things regarding the blog - I hope we meet there!

For this week I made a birthday cake for my blog, I wanted to make it in many layers and I wanted to make all the parts by myself and not use any semi-manufactures.
The cake contains three layers of filling; two layers of homemade blueberry/raspberry jam and one layer of homemade vanilla custard.

Lemon Cake with Blueberry/Raspberry Jam and Vanilla Custard

Garnish
5 dl whipped cream
Red food coloring
Sprinkles

Homemade bluberry/raspberry jam
250 grams frozen raspberries
250 grams frozen blueberries
1 deciliter sugar
Sheet of gelatin (optional)

1. Let the berries thaw and become soft in a sauce pan on medium heat while stirring. 
2. When the berries are soft you can use a spoon or a masher to crush the berries.
3. Add sugar and let the jam simmer for about 15 minutes.
4. If you want you can add gelatin sheet, follow the instuctions on the package.
5. Put the jam into the fridge to cool completely.

Vanilla Custard
2 deciliter milk
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons corn starch
2 egg yolks
2 teaspoons vanilla sugar

1. Put all the ingrediets, except for the vanilla sugar, into a sauce pan.
2. Whisk until you get a smooth batter.
3. Heat on low to medium heat while you continue to whisk constantly until the custard is firm and fine in texture. The custarn must not boil!
4. Stir gentley and add the vanilla sugar.
5. Let the custard cool and keep it in he fridge until making the cake.

Lemon Cake (make TWO of this!)
3 eggs
2 deciliter sugar
1 deciliter wheat flour
60 grams potato flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Juice and grated lemon zest of 1/2 lemon

1. Put the oven on 175 Celsius.
2. Grease and bread a spring form diameter 20 cm.
3. Whisk the eggs and sugar until the batter is light and white.
4. Mix flour, potatoflour and baking powder and then stirr it into the egg batter.
5. Add the lemon juce and the grated lemon zest into the batter. 
6. Pour the batter into the spring form and bake in the loer part of the oven for about 40 minutes (but use a test stick to see when it is dry.
7. Let the cake cool in the form and then take it out and let it rest on a grid.

Assembly the cake
1. If the two lemon cakes are rounded on top, even out with a knife. Cut both cakes in two so you get a total of four cake layers.
2. Put the first cake layer on a cake stad or a plate and spread half of the blueberry/raspberry jam on it.
3. Add the next cake layer and spread all of the vanilla custard on it.
4. Add the next cake layer and add the rest of the blueberry/raspberry jam on it.
5. Add the final cake layer.
6. Whip 5 the cream and add a few drops of red food coloring to make it pink.
7. Use a spatula to spread a layer of pink cream all over the cake.
8. Use a piping bag to make decorations on top and cover the cake with sprinkles!

Tip: I made the jam and the vanilla custard the day before I made the cake - good to divide the various stages and not do everything at once!

Homemade Citrus Marmelade

On Christmas Day we visited my brother in law and met the whole family on my husband's side. It has become a tradition to play a special game when we meet at Christmas. The special game is called "The Present Game" and is as follows:
Each person brings three presents all wrapped in fancy paper with a cost of about 5 dollars each. We all sit down at a big table and put all the presents in a big pile in the middle. Then each one of us in clockwise order get to throw a dice and if you get number six or number one you get to take one present from the pile. When everyone has three presents each it is time for the next part of the game. Someone set the alarm to ring in about 10 to 20 minutes and then no one gets to the see how much time is left. Then we start in clockwise order again to throw the dice. If you get number six or number one you have to exchange one of your presents with anyone else's. This is so much fun because it is often one or two presents (often the largest and has very inviting paper) that everyone wants and no one knows how much time is left until the alarm clock will ring so it can get a little hysterical haha... When the alarm is ringing the time is out and the game is over. Now it is time for everyone to open the presents and look what they got :)

For this game I did not want to buy something, I wanted to make someting, and today I am going to show you what I came up with! I was really surprised to realize that it was not that difficult to make and it did not take alot of time either :) The glass jars are bought at IKEA and they are called RAJTAN, here you can find them on the Swedish site!

Homemade Citrus Marmelade (about 2 L depending on the size of the fruits)

800 grams of oranges
400 grams of lemons
4 deciliter water
1 kilo jam sugar (contains sugar, pectin, citric acid and potassium sorbate)
Clean glass jars put in oven for about 20 minutes 75 Celsius (not the lids) so they are warm when you pour the marmelade in them

1. Wash the fruits well in hot water. Dry them with a handcloth and cut both ends.
2. Cut the fruits in small pieces and remove any seeds. Then use a food processor or a stick blender to mix the pieces to more of a puree consistency.
3. Boil the citrus mixture together with the jam sugar and the water in a large sauce pan for 15 minutes. 
4. Take the hot glass jars out of the oven and use a large spoon to pour the marlelade into the jars. Be careful because it will be very hot! Fill the jars up to the upper edge of the jars and put the lids on immediately. Put the jars upside down. 
Let the jars cool in room temperature and then store them in a cold environment.