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Kransekake - need an 'easy' recipe please

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ilythia · 15/01/2011 18:21

One of my siblings recently married a Norwegian and we had kransekake at their wedding (here for those unlucky enough never to have ahd it.

I got a tube of ready made dough for christmas and have just cooked it, and I had forgotten how goooooooooooooooooorgeous it is!

When I google for recipes they all go on about needing almond paste and how to make it with a grinder not going to happen, sorry, so what shortcuts/cheats can I use?
Anyone have a nice easy british recipe? (as in with ingredients I can find in tesco...[grin})

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SoupDragon · 15/01/2011 18:31

Would white marzipan work? It just almonds sugar and glucose syrup.

SoupDragon · 15/01/2011 18:31

Perhaps too firm though.

QuintessentialShadows · 15/01/2011 18:31

just a moment, let me translate recipes.

SoupDragon · 15/01/2011 18:33

Surely making almond paste isn't that tricky if you buy ready blanched almonds though.

QuintessentialShadows · 15/01/2011 18:34

oh sorry, you want a BRITISH recipe, then I cant help.

Bunbaker · 15/01/2011 18:35

Surely almond paste is just marzipan? But having looked at the recipe it looks like all you need is eggs, ground almonds and sugar.

thisisyesterday · 15/01/2011 18:36

well... can you not just use the recipe on that link you posted?

it's just ground almonds, icing sugar and egg whites...

KenDoddsDadsDog · 15/01/2011 18:37

My mam just uses ground almonds I think. Lovecthe stuff! I will ask her.
I think scandi kitchen might sell the ready made stuff .

SoupDragon · 15/01/2011 18:38

Oh, FFS of course! Ready ground almonds! Piece of cake, surely?

ilythia · 15/01/2011 18:38

sorry, I knew that would come off wrong, I don't mean british as in british, I mean one that isn't american (I can't translate the norweigan ones) as all the ones I have found say
'almond paste - which you can buy in any bakery'

I don't have a grinder and BIL says I can't use marzipan as it wouldn't work.

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QuintessentialShadows · 15/01/2011 18:38

that recipe is wrong though, "powdered" sugar is icing sugar, needs to be sieved in. The almonds should also be blanched and ground, to get the even white colour.

Or, I could post you an "assemble your own Kransekake kit".

KenDoddsDadsDog · 15/01/2011 18:40

QuintessentialShadows · 15/01/2011 18:42

No, that is a log of marzipan.

ilythia · 15/01/2011 18:42

Oh ffs. I am such a dick.

I googled for an image to show what I meant (as my spelling of it is not great, better than my pronunciation but...) and I hadn't scrolled down the page

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QuintessentialShadows · 15/01/2011 18:43

I think almond meal is closer to what you need than ground blanched almonds, or a combination of the two.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 15/01/2011 18:45

Is it? Says almond paste for baking?

Bunbaker · 15/01/2011 18:46

Will this do?
cinemagypsy.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/save-the-kransekake-with-recipe/

or this - you need to scroll quite a long way down
multemusic.com/wedding/preparation.shtml

or this:
www.tastebook.com/recipes/2047117-Norwegian-Wedding-Cake-Kranse-Kake-Ring-Cake-

SusanCalvin · 15/01/2011 18:48

I have made Kransekae using this recipe with icing sugar and ground almonds which I bought ready ground. It seemed to work really well but I have never eaten one made by anyone else, so I don't know whether it tasted like it ought to or not.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 15/01/2011 18:49

My mam says she uses ground almonds. And not to forget the flags!

QuintessentialShadows · 15/01/2011 18:51

Ken, Marzipan cake is the most popular festive cake in Scandinavia, it says almond paste for baking, as you are supposed to roll it out with a rolling pin, and "ice" your cakes with it! We use it like you use icing! Or, you mash it up in cream, to use as a filling in buns, such as semlor , as suggested on that page.

QuintessentialShadows · 15/01/2011 18:53

Ilythia, anyway, I am Norwegian, I am in Norway, if you need any help with either translating recipes, or want me to post you a cake kit, pm me. They are lovely cakes, I made one for Christmas.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 15/01/2011 18:54

I know. My Mam's Norwegian. Thanks for the lesson though. Not sure why you are being so snippy when I was trying to help the OP.

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QuintessentialShadows · 15/01/2011 19:01

I dont know what you are on about, Ken.
What do you mean "thanks for the lesson"?

I think you are being snippy here!
Almond paste is really the last topic where I thought I should encounter grief on mumsnet.

I was also just trying to help.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 15/01/2011 19:06

Yeah me too. But at least I know about rolling out marzipan.

QuintessentialShadows · 15/01/2011 19:08

Well, at least you now know that it actually is marzipan.

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