Saint Lucia's Day's lingonberry cake

If you want your home to feel like Christmas, it's an excellent idea to bake a Christmassy spice cake, which brings the smell of gingerbread biscuits to your home.


This idea came from an idea to make my mum (for her Finnish 'name day') a Saint Lucia's Day's cake for her to take to work. The cake was originally supposed to be shaped as the crown of candles Saint Lucia wears on her head, and after a little research I learned that the crown was originally made of lingonberry shrubs, so I decided to search the internet for lingonberry cake recipes. I ended up with this simple dry cake recipe, and gave up the idea of making a cake shaped as the crown of candles after all. Although you could still make this the crown too, with the help of a few added birthday candles... ;)




Lingonberry cake:

80 g       butter or baking margarine
4,5 dl      plain flour
3 dl         granulated sugar
2 tsp       ground ginger
2 tsp       cinnamon powder
1 tsp       ground cloves
2 tsp       bicarbonate of soda
1,5 dl      lingonberry purée
3 dl         milk


Grease and cover the inside of a bundt pan with breadcrumbs. Melt the butter or margarine. Mix all the dry ingredients together and add the lingonberry purée, melted butter or margarine and milk. Stir well.

Pour the cake mix into the pan and bake in 180°C for 50-60 minutes.

Turn the cake over and let cool down under the pan.