A prinsesstårta is a traditional Swedish cake, and one of the most popular with over 500,000 sold and consumed each year. The cake is traditionally green, although nowadays they often come in pink too, and was a great favourite of Swedish princesses (hence the name!). There are lots of variations on this recipe and I have posted some links with other recipes at the bottom of this page. It is made of sponge, either Victoria or genoise, with layers of either cream, custard, creme patissiere, jam or fresh fruit, all covered with a thin layer of marzipan and a flower on top. So here is my recipe for a Princess Cake:
Yummy Mummy's Princess Cake
8oz/200g self raising flour,
8oz/200g castor sugar,
8oz/200g Stork,
4 eggs,
1tsp vanilla essence.
Raspberry jam,
Custard- either made with sugar, custard powder and milk or bought,
250ml double cream,
Pack of white marzipan,
Green and pink food colourings (gels are best if you have them).
1. Preheat the oven to 190C/gas mark 5.
2. Mix together the self raising flour, castor sugar, Stork, eggs and vanilla essence.
3. Spoon into two lined round cake tins and bake for 20 minutes until lightly golden on top. Leave to cool.
4. When the cakes have cooled cut each in half so you have 4 thin cakes.
5. Layer the cakes with your fillings, not including the cream. I used custard, jam, then custard.
6. Whip the cream until thick then spread on top of the cake, creating a dome shape. I only used a small pot of cream as I'm not a huge cream fan but some people like loads of cream and create a huge dome of cream on top.
7. Remove a small piece of marzipan for the flower on top. Colour the rest of the marzipan bright green, kneading it well until it is all one colour. Your hands will need a good wash afterwards!
8. Colour the remaining marzipan pink and use it to make a small flower for on top. A simple way to do this is to make a cone shape then rounded petals, add them so they overlap, building the flower outwards until you are happy with the shape. You can also use this simple method for making easy sugarpaste flowers.
9. Roll the green marzipan out thinly, using icing sugar to stop it sticking to the worktop. Cover the cake with it and cut off any excess from the bottom. Add the marzipan flower to the top and voila!
Here are a few links to some other Princess Cake recipes. Hope you enjoy making your own:
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What a beautiful cake - and it tasted delicious too - certainly fit for a princess - well done Yummy Mummy!!
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