Traditional Norwegian Cream Cake - Bløtkake - a delicious sponge layer cake filled with pudding and peaches and cream, topped with whipped cream, blueberries and strawberries.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time35 minutesmins
Additional Time15 minutesmins
Total Time1 hourhr
Servings: 12
Ingredients
Cake
6eggs
1cupsugar
1 1/4cupflour
1 1/2teaspoonbaking powder
Filling
1box vanilla pudding
1cupmilk
16oz.peachescanned
1pintwhipping cream
1Tsugar
1quartfresh strawberries
1pintblueberries
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 325 F and grease and flour a spring form pan.
Beat the eggs and the sugar on high speed until light and frothy. They should be light yellow and a little bubbly.
6 eggs, 1 cup sugar
Mix the flour and baking soda together. Sift the mixture about 1/3 at a time over the egg mixture and fold together with a spatula. Don't over mix! Fold until the batter is no longer streaked with flour.
1 1/4 cup flour, 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Pour the mixture into the spring form pan and bake for about 35 minutes, until the center is firm.
Cool completely before removing the sides of the spring form pan.
While it is cooling make the pudding with only 1 cup of milk, instead of the two called for on the box. It will be very thick! Let the pudding cool.
1 cup milk, 1 box vanilla pudding
Once the cake is cool cut it into 3 more or less equal layers. A wire cake lever is very useful for this, without a leveler I usually just make it a two layer cake.
Put each of the three layers of the cake on separate plates. Drizzle with the juice from the peach can. Use up all the juice.
Mix about 2/3 of the peaches in the can with the cooled pudding, and crush with a fork. Use the mixture to top one of the layers.
16 oz. peaches
Whip the cream with 1 Tablespoon of sugar until soft peaks form.
1 pint whipping cream, 1 T sugar
Crush 2/3 of the strawberries and mix with 1/3 of the whipped cream. Use this mixture to top another cake layer.
1 quart fresh strawberries
Stack the cake layers together with the peach layer on the bottom. Frost the cake with the remainder of the whipped cream, and decorate with the remaining strawberries and blueberries, or whatever fruit you prefer.