Swedish Cardamom Cake
This easy Swedish Cardamom cake with coffee glaze is an unforgettable flavor and texture combination, and makes a great addition to your holiday baking list.
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- 8 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 300 g Unsalted butter (at room temperature (soft).)
- 400 g Granulated sugar
- 3 teaspoon Vanilla bean paste
- 4 Eggs (at room temperature.)
- 225 g Yogurt (use thick full fat Greek or Turkish style yogurt at room temperature.)
- 90 g Whole milk (at room temperature.)
- 450 g All purpose flour
- 3½ teaspoon Baking powder
- 80 g Almond flour
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- 3 teaspoon Cardamom powder
- 200 g Powdered sugar (sifted)
- 1-2 tablespoons Coffee (freshly brewed)
Instructions
- 1
Preheat your oven to 175C / 347F and prepare a Bundt cake pan 10 inches / 25cm (see notes section below).
- 2
Beat the soft butter and sugar together in a mixing bowl with an Electric hand mixer for 3-5 minutes until fluffy. Then add in the vanilla bean paste.
- 3
Slowly add the room-temperature eggs into the mixture with the Electric hand mixer still going.
- 4
Sift the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, almond flour, salt, and cardamom powder) together in a separate bowl.
- 5
Mix the milk and yogurt together for a few seconds (both need to be at room temperature).
- 6
Fold the milk and yogurt mixture and the dry ingredients into the butter, sugar, and egg mixture in 4 steps: wet, dry, wet, dry. Switch to a Rubber spatula for this step.
- 7
Pour the Swedish cardamom cake batter into the prepared Bundt pan and bake for 1 hour. The cake is ready when the cake has a nice rise, and an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- 8
Let the cake rest for 5 minutes in the pan before turning it out onto a wire cooling rack and allowing it to cool completely to room temperature. The cake can be served as it is, or with an added coffee glaze.
- 9
Coffee glaze
- 10
Mix freshly brewed coffee with sifted powdered sugar until smooth. Adjust the quantities by adding more of each if necessary to achieve the right consistency to pour the glaze.
- 11
Pour the coffee glaze over the cold bundt cake. Let it set for a few minutes before serving.
- 12
Store leftover Swedish cardamom cake in an air-tight container at room temperature or in the fridge and consume it within 3-4 days. This cake can be frozen before it is glazed.