Sinterklaascake

By
Bearskitchen
on December 10, 2010

Delicious cake that contains all the typical sweets found during the celebration from Saint Nicholas’s eve in The Netherlands. for the pictures you can check it here: http://www.bearskitchen.com/sinterklaascake.htm

Method

Preparation:

For the Speculaas Spice Mix:

Blend all the ingredients together and keep in an air tight container.

For the cake:

In a large bowl, whisk the egg whites until foamy.

In a separated bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, ground almonds, speculaas mix and vanilla sugar.

In another bowl, mix the sugar with the egg yolks and the speculoos pasta.

Add the flour mixture into the egg yolks mixture little by little mixing until well combined.

With a spatula mix in the egg whites with envolving movements.

Pour the batter in a cake form (greased 24 cm diameter) and bake in a previously pre-heated oven at 180°C for 50 minutes.

Let it cool down before frosting.

For the frosting:

Cream the speculoos pasta with the cream cheese just until combined.

Cut the cake into two layers, fill the middle with a quarter of the frosting.

Frost the top and sides of the cakes too.

Cover with the marzipan, decorate the sides with the ribbon and top with the candies, cookies, chocolates, wafers and figures.

Ingredients

Ingredients:
•Flour, 300 gr
•Bking powder, 2 tsp
•Brown sugar, 200 gr
•Vanilla sugar, 1 envelope
•Speculoos pasta, 200 gr
•Eggs (divided), 8
•Speculaas spice mix, 1 tbs:
1.Cinnamon, 4 tsp
2.Cloves, 1 tsp
3.Nutmeg, 1 tsp
4.White pepper, 1/4 tsp
5.Ginger, 1/2 tsp
6.Cardamom, 1/4 tsp
7.Mace, 1/4 tsp
•Ground almonds, 45 gr
For the frosting:
•Cream cheese (softened), 400 gr
•Speculoos pasta, 400 gr
For topping:
•Marzipan cover (rolled, ready to use), 2 rolls
•Strooigoed (Dutch sweets for celebrating sinterklaas) (pepernoten, kruidnoten, chocolate kruidnoten, peperbollen, schuimpjes, tumtum, suikergoed,
•Borstplaat (tablet) ) (for decorating)
•Chocolate coins
•Chocolate letters (for writting Sint for Sinterklaas and Piet for Zwarte Piet)
•Ribbon (red and purple)
•Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet figures
•Wafers (for laying on top the figures)