Delfia Cake

December 20th 2018

Norwegian coconut butter

Since I have been married most years my Norwegian aunt made me a fridge cake for Christmas, known in Norway as Delfia kake. It is made from coconut butter, which was unavailable in the majority of supermarkets in the UK twenty-five years ago, now, of course, you can find it almost everywhere.  Tante Berit, my mother's only sibling died last year and left a big hole in our small family.  This year, with mamma here, we made Delfia kake and even though we did not speak of her, my aunt was not far from either of our thoughts.  I think I am going to rename this cake in our house Tante Berit's Cake.

Line a loaf tin with foil

This is a fabulously easy cake to make with children and needs no baking.  It is terribly sweet, so a little goes a very long way.


Tante Berit's Cake


You will need:  


250g dark chocolate
4 tablespoons strong coffee
250g coconut butter
2 eggs

Coconut butter

3 tablespoons sugar
Approximately half a pack of Rich Tea biscuits
100g marzipan
1 bag of sugar jelly sweets, the soft variety, Haribo or equivalent




♥  Line a loaf tin with foil.
♥  Melt the chocolate over low heat, adding the coffee.
♥  In a separate pan melt the coconut butter and then remove from the heat and COOL.  Do not omit to cool, this is very important.
♥  Whisk the eggs and sugar until they form a thick mixture, this will take several minutes.
♥  Add the chocolate to the thicken egg mixture and continue to whisk well.
♥  Add the coconut butter a little at a time, continually whisking.  Continue to whisk until the mixture has an even look to it.
♥  Layer the chocolate mixture alternately with biscuits, sliced marzipan and the jelly sweets, finishing with the chocolate. 
♥  Decorate the top with some jelly sweets.
♥  Place in the fridge to stiffen up and take out and slice thinly and have with a cup of tea or coffee.  ♥  Remember it is sweet!

Melt the chocolate and butter in separate pans

Whisk the eggs and sugar...

Until thick and creamy looking.

Add the melted chocolate,
I had let mine cool a bit too much!

Mix well

Adding the coconut butter gave
it an extra sheen of gloss

Norwegian jelly sweets
literally translate to 'sticky men' !!!

Layer the cake with the chocolate mixture and marzipan, biscuits and sweets.

Layering

Even more layering

Finally, decorate the top layer with jelly sweets

The finished cake after refrigerating

Slice thinly and not as thick
as the picture in this slice!

Perhaps a word of warning, however, if you are going to let the children eat this, I suggest a good run around outside after to burn off the sugar intake and avoid any of those sugar highs!  Enjoy x

An attractive looking cake
that goes down well with children.

♥  Are you ready for Christmas yet?  ♥