Sinterklaascake
By: Mrs and Mr Bear
Published: Saturday, December 4, 2010 - 10:08pm

Ingredients




Ingredients:
300 grams •Flour,
2 teaspoons •Bking powder,
200 grams •Brown sugar,
1 envelope •Vanilla sugar,
200 grams •Speculoos pasta,
8 •Eggs (divided),
1 tablespoon •Speculaas spice mix,:
1 teaspoon Cinnamon, 4
2 teaspoons Cloves, 1
3 teaspoons Nutmeg, 1
4 teaspoons White pepper, ¼
5 teaspoons Ginger, ½
6 teaspoons Cardamom, ¼
7 teaspoons Mace, ¼
45 grams •Ground almonds,
For the frosting:
400 grams •Cream cheese (softened),
400 grams •Speculoos pasta,
For topping:
2 •Marzipan cover (rolled, ready to use), rolls
•Strooigoed (Dutch sweets for celebrating sinterklaas) (pepernoten, kruidnoten, chocolate kruidnoten, peperbollen, schuimpjes, t
•Borstplaat (tablet)) (for decorating)
•Chocolate coins
•Chocolate letters (for writting Sint for Sinterklaas and Piet for Zwarte Piet)
•Ribbon (red and purple)
•Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet figures
•Wafers (for laying on top the figures)

Preparation

1 Preparation: 2 For the Speculaas Spice Mix: 3 Blend all the ingredients together and keep in an air tight container. 4 For the cake: 5 In a large bowl, whisk the egg whites until foamy. 6 In a separated bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, ground almonds, speculaas mix and vanilla sugar. 7 In another bowl, mix the sugar with the egg yolks and the speculoos pasta. 8 Add the flour mixture into the egg yolks mixture little by little mixing until well combined. 9 With a spatula mix in the egg whites with envolving movements. 10 Pour the batter in a cake form (greased 24 cm diameter) and bake in a previously pre-heated oven at 180°C for 50 minutes. 11 Let it cool down before frosting. 12 For the frosting: 13 Cream the speculoos pasta with the cream cheese just until combined. 14 Cut the cake into two layers, fill the middle with  a quarter of the frosting. 15 Frost the top and sides of the cakes too. 16 Cover with the marzipan, decorate the sides with the ribbon and top with the candies, cookies, chocolates, wafers and figures.

About


Sinterklaas is a traditional Winter holiday figure in the Netherlands, Belgium, Aruba, Suriname and Netherlands Antilles; he is celebrated annually on Saint Nicholas' eve (5 December) or, in Belgium, on the morning of 6 December. The feast celebrates the name day of Saint Nicholas, patron saint of Amsterdam, children and sailors. He is the basis of the mythical holiday figure of Santa Claus in the United States.