Holiday Ring Cake Recipe 55

HOLIDAY RING CAKE RECIPE - (5/5)

Steps:

• Cream butter and cream cheese, add sugar and beat well. Add vanilla and lemon rind. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating after each. Sift flour and baking powder together and blend in. Toss nuts and fruit with ¼ cup flour. Add to mixture. Stir well. Pour into well greased tube pan. Bake for 70-80 minutes at 300F. Cool. Dust with icing or drizzle with icing and milk

RING CAKE (KRANSEKAKE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 F or 180 C.
• Grind the almonds into fine powder. I used an old fashioned nut grinder. You can use the regular grinder.
• Add in the sugar and baking powder to the almonds and mix.
• Now keep on adding the egg whites one by one and kneading the Almond mixture with the whites with gentle hands until a dough is formed.
• Once the dough is formed time to shape the rings. roll out the dough into sausage shape. Thickness should be about 1/4 inch.
• Fill in the kransekake pans to form the rings. There will be a total of 18 rings.
• Bake for 10 minutes in the oven and pull out and completely cool before take out of the molds.
• While the rings are cooling off you can prepare the icing.
• Instructions for the icing: Lightly beat 1 large egg white in a bowl. Now keep on adding icing sugar to the egg white little by little (1 tablespoon at a time) until you attain the desired consistency (It should be at a pouring consistency but not runny).
• Once the rings are completely cooled and the icing is ready its time to form the tower.
• starting from the larger ring to the smallest build up a tower.
• Place the largest ring on the plate and with the icing create a zigzag pattern on the ring and when the icing is still wet place the next size ring over it. The icing acts like a glue holding the rings together.
• Continue until you reach to the smallest ring.
• Decorate as desired with ribbons, toothpick flags with personal messages and flowers.

VANILLA RING CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 10-in. fluted tube pan. In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and baking soda; add to the creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition., Pour into prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 55-65 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. , Combine the confectioners' sugar, vanilla and enough milk to achieve desired consistency; drizzle over cake.

VANILLA RING CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and baking soda; add to the creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition.
• Pour into a greased and floured 10-inch fluted tub pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 55-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Combine the confectioners sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Add the milk, up to the 2 tablespoons, to make a drizzle. Drizzle over the cake.

KRANSEKAKE (NORWEGIAN ALMOND RING CAKE)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line 2 sheets with parchment paper.
• Combine confectioners' sugar, ground almonds, and baking powder in a large bowl. Add unbeaten egg whites one at a time, mixing until a firm dough forms. Knead dough for 2 minutes until it holds together and doesn't fall apart easily.
• Roll dough into 18 ropes the thickness of your index finger, each rope a little longer than the next. Shape each rope into a ring. Arrange rings on the baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 10 minutes. Watch smaller circles carefully, as they may finish baking before the larger ones. Remove from the oven and let cool.
• Mix confectioners' sugar and vanilla extract together to make icing. Pour icing into a piping bag fitted with a small tip.
• Place a doily on a serving plate. Pipe a ring of icing as large as the largest cake ring. Place the largest cake ring on the icing. Pipe icing in a zig-zag pattern over the ring. Stack remaining cake rings on top, from largest to smallest, piping icing between each ring.