Fyriskaka – Swedish cinnamon cake with apples

When it’s cold outside the best thing is a cup of hot tea and a soft, spicy, sweet and fragrant cake like Fyriskaka which is Swedish cinnamon cake with apples. It warms your heart with its simplicity, with its smell of baked apples, and its sent of cardamom and cinnamon. It is very tasty once cooled down but even better warm with a scoop of whipped cream next to it.

Fyriskaka – Swedish cinnamon cake with apples

Fyriskaka – Swedish cinnamon cake with apples – easy, fragrant apple cake with cinnamon and cardamom.

Course sweets and desserts

Cuisine Ovo-lacto vegetarianism, traditional Swedish

Keyword apple cake, butter cake, cinnamon, easy cake, fruit dessert, moist cake, traditional recipe

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 40

Total Time 50

Servings 21 cm wide, round baking pan

Calories 111kcal

Ingredients

500 g apples
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
110 g melted butter
140 g all-purpose flour
80 g brown sugar
2 eggs
0.5 tsp baking powder
8 or more unpeeled cardamom seeds (or 1 tsp cardamom powder)
0.5 tsp coriander seeds or coriander powder

Instructions

Instructions: Fyriskaka – Swedish cinnamon cake with apples

(This step is optional, you can also use ground spices) In an empty frying pan heat peeled cardamom seeds (the blacks seeds that are inside the green pods) and coriander seeds for a couple of minutes. Place the seeds in a mortar and grind them.
In a bowl mix 2 tablespoons of brown sugar with the cinnamon. Peel apples and cut them into slices. Put them in the bowl with sugar and toss gently to cover them completely. Set aside.
In a bowl, mix the melted butter with the remaining sugar.
Add the coriander/cardamom powder and eggs and mix well with a whisk.
Add sifted flour and the baking powder and stir in briefly.
Brush a round baking tray (21-23 cm wide) with very little butter and dust with some flour (you also can use the baking paper). Pour the dough and flatten it gently. Place the apple slices in the batter in a circular formation.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C for 30 – 40 minutes.