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We are off to our friends for dinner tomorrow and I was in charge of the pudding. She is doing a paella so I was going to do something Spanish themed but I couldn't find anything I fancied doing. Then I remembered the Kransekake (pronounced kranzeycaca) pan that I bought from Lakeland in the sale.

It was pretty easy to make - I made the batter (ground almonds, icing sugar and egg whites) yesterday and kept it in the fridge. Then today I rolled the batter out into long sausages, finger thick and put them in the special pans. (photo is a little blurred - sorry).



Then baked them for 10 minutes, left them to cool and built them up using icing sugar. Then stuck a load of rice paper daisies on them.

It isn't perfect - I know now why it is important to get the sausages the same thickness. But for a first attempt I am really pleased with it. I might try and get some indoor sparklers to go in the top - its a shame that it doesn't go to a point at the top really - I might try that next time by creating something by hand.

Oh - and a Kransekake is a Danish dessert. It means "wreath cake" and is traditionally for Christmas.

Edited to add - I have no idea what it tastes like!!!! I have tried the raw batter (its called a batter but is a dough really) which tastes slightly like marzipan (obviously - it is made with almonds) but haven't tasted it cooked. I thought it would go very nicely washed down with a glass of my home made amaretto.

It looks brilliant Debih
Must be rather like macaroons (as opposed to those dinky little macarons), it's the same ingredients. Yes amaretto will be perfect

I'd be in dead trouble, I can't roll sausage shapes to save my life Would it pipe?

well done deb it looks lovely
reminds me of the cake in the bake of with bees on it
hope everybody enjoys it

Yes I think it would pipe Di. I was debating about trying that this morning but I watched a clip on Youtube and the man made it look so easy I thought I would roll it by hand. Famous last words eh!!!! It took bloody ages and they are all different thicknesses.

I will be having a go at piping next time.

The icing on the bottom rings is how it is supposed to look but I started to get a little stingy as I got higher up as I couldn't be bothered to mix any more icing up!

saundra wrote:reminds me of the cake in the bake of with bees on it

I thought that too Saundra.

Next time I make it I might have a go at making some little marzipan bees. It would look pretty good I think.

Brilliant Debih.

it's fab!!!!

That looks amazing!!!

That looks very impressive!!!!! My finest hour was making Dougal cakes out of swiss rolls...............

I am Wowed Out by that Debih! Fantastic