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Saffron is popular in Swedish cakes and cookies. Perhaps the golden glow of
saffron warms the chilly winter sky in Sweden.
Ingredients
Bread crumbs for pan
8 ounces butter or margarine
pinch saffron
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cup milk
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Confectioner's sugar
Preperation
Butter a 9 inch spring form, pan and sprinkle some bread crumbs around pan.
Melt butter and let cool
Crush with a mortar and pestle, the saffron preferably with a sugar cube. Beat eggs and sugar, add saffron, butter and milk.
In a separate bowl, mix flour with baking powder. Add to egg batter. Pour batter into the baking pan. Bake on bottom rack of oven at 175 C (350°F) for 40-50 minutes. Test for doneness.
Let cake cool before removing baking pan. Cut out a star or a heart shape from paper and place it on the cake, sift the confectioner's sugar over the top.
Recipe from
InMamasKitchen.com
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