In Sweden the most popular cake is called “kladdkaka” (which means sticky cake). It is a dense sticky chocolate cake similar to a brownie but with a soft and slightly viscous centre. This recipe is also a “kladdkaka” but with lemon instead of chocolate! Anything with lemon is usually delicious but this was amazing! And as with any “kladdkaka” it has these benefits:
- Simple and fast to bake
- Ordinary ingredients
- Easy to vary with additional ingredients and different things to serve it with
- Works really well to store in fridge or even freezer
- Can be baked as individual cakes by using muffin cups
Here you can find this recipe in swedish.
Recipe: Citronkladdkaka (Swedish lemon mud cake)
Ingredients
- 1 lemon
- 150 g butter
- 3 eggs
- 300 g sugar 300 ml
- 2 tsp vanilla sugar
- 125 g flour 250 ml
Decoration
- powdered sugar
- lemon zest from 1 extra lemon
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 175 C (350 F)
- Melt the butter in a big pot (that can later contain all the ingredients)
- Remove the pot from the heat and stir in the sugar and vanilla sugar until dissolved
- Zest the lemon and squeeze out the juice, add both zest and juice to the pot
- Add the eggs while whisking gently (you don't want a lot of air trapped in the mixture)
- Mix in the flour which you add it a little at a time to avoid lumps (best is to use a sieve/sifter)
- Take a 24 cm cake pan with removable bottom and grease it. Then add some breadcrumbs or coconut flakes so it sticks to the greased surface
- Pour in the cake batter and bake for 25-30 min. If you use a smaller / larger pan you will need to adjust the time. The cake should be crisp on the edges and sticky in the middle
- Let the cake cool, sprinkle some powdered sugar on top along with some fresh lemon zest and serve with vanilla icecream or whipped cream. The cake is best when served fridge cold.
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Another sweet recipe similar in taste is the lemon bars
Don’t miss the recipe for or our other sweet recipes or our other sticky cake alternatives: Swedish chocolate mud cake, or the Swedish saffron sticky cake, or the Swedish chocolate gingerbread mud cake
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