Hi there,

I've been "here" couple of weeks and I have already got many good ideas and help.

Cos I've never been in Usa or Australia or many other countries (I live in Finland, it's in north Europe, Conan O'brian is coming here LOL).

1) What is you main cakerecipe? We mostly do our cakes with recipe that includes eggs + sugar mixed, then we add flour + baking-powder ( and cocoa if you do braun cake).

2) How do you serve your cakes? With coffee and what? or just with coffee?

3) Have you ever made sandwichcakes? We do those too. First we eat something salty and the the cake. Sandwichcake is made of breadsheets. It can be fish, ham or cheese flavour. Here is one picture http://www.huovisenleipomo.fi/suolaiset/pages/voileipakakku_lohi_jpg.htm

Thanks..

jenni with many questions...

Hi!


Usually people serve cake with either ice cream (which is usually at a birthday party.) Milk is popular to drink along with.

If you're having cake after a nice dinner most people drink coffee or water.

This is a recipe for a pretty basic yellow cake. Chocolate is also really popular. Other popular cakes are carrot, red velvet, and spice.

In addition, this is a good place for a wide variety information http://www.marthastewart.com/

The Whimsical Bakehouse Yellow Cake
Yields 9 cups of batter and is written to be baked in two 10 rounds

8 oz unsalted butter
2 cups sugar
6 large egg yolks
1.5 tsp vanilla
3.5 cups cake flour
1 Tbs 1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
1.5 cups milk

1. Cream the butter and sugar. Add the egg yolks and vanilla; beat until fluffy. Whisk dry ingredients together in a large bowl and add them to the egg mixture alternately with the milk. Bake at 350* for 20-35 minutes, depending on the pan size and how full the pans are.
2. Suggested variation: Substitute 3/4 cup orange juice for half of the milk and add 1 Tbs grated orange zest along with the milk. Makes a fabulous orange cake.
3. Notes: The recipes call for the batter to be baked in 2 10x3 round pans, filling one pan with 3.5 cups of batter and the other pan with the remaining 5.5 cups. This in theory should give you 3 layers once you split what comes out of the more-full pan. The book's baking times for this configuration are 20-25 minutes for the less-full pan and 30-35 minutes for the more full pan. I play with this configuration all the time, adjusting baking times as needed.

I like milk with my cake although coffee is good also. That is a neat idea, the sandwich cake.
i like to use cake mix with other stuff added, like sour cream or butter milk. There are so many cake recipes.

ml

Wow! That cake you posted is a piece of food art! Never seen anything that unique here in the United States. : )

Wow Jenni! THat is an interesting sandwich! Welcome to cakecentral.

My husband's great-grandfather came from Finland.

Welcome my new Finnish friend. When I lived in Timmins and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada I had many Finnish friends. I loved all the open faced sandwiches. Always with coffee and cake or wonderful prune filled pastries and such. Your icings are more like butter with a bit of sweetener. Love Finnish chocolates and such too. My pals used to catch smelts and used them a lot on their open faced sandwiches.
I would imagine you would find American Buttercream very sweet. My Finnish friends would make "Coffee" more like a meal, I enjoyed that tradition.
We tend to serve cake with icecream and coffee or tea here.
Hugs Squirrelly

Thanks guys.

It's interesting to read about your traditions...ice cream with cake maybe in kids party, but very different to me.

Yes your buttercream is very sweet... but it pipes so nicely.

jenni