Mandarin yogurt cake with Christmas spice mix

In Estonian

Cake with Christmas spice mix  and mandarin yogurt

The cake has extra thin layers and a lot of cream between these layers.

This cake tastes like Christmas dream 😊

Dough for cake layers:

50 g of dark syrup

25 g of sugar

1 egg

70 g Alma Eesti võid

0.25 tsp of baking soda

200 g wheat flour

2 tbsp Christmas spice mix (containing ginger, clove, cinnamon, cardamom)

a little salt

Cream between cake layers:

50 g of sugar

2  pcs Alma Muah! cream yoghurt mandarin with cinnamon bisquits 380 g

1 pcs Valio Viola fresh cheese vanilla 200g

For decoration:

4 mandarins

thyme sprigs

1 tbsp honey

Stir the syrup, sugar and egg. Heat the mixture on the water bath and stir until the sugar has melted.

Add butter and let it melt. 

Add baking soda, stir and leave the mixture to cool.

Add salt, flour and spice mix and knead into the batter. 

Divide batter into seven equal parts. Draw a 20 cm diameter ring to the baking sheet (use the bottom of the 20 cm diameter cake tin). Roll the dough in the baking sheet evenly (watch the circle drawn on paper). Cut the dough that goes over the edges of the drawn circle, and  bake these separately. Crush the baked leftovers and you will get the crumb with what you can decorate the cake.

Bake the cake layers at 200°C for about 4 minutes until the layers are light brown.

Cover a 20 cm diameter cake tin bottom and sides with baking sheet.

Whip the fresh cheese with sugar using hand mixer and add yogurt. Whip more until you get a even cream.

Place one baked cake layer on the bottom of the cake tin (if it does not fit well, then you can cut the edges a little). Spread the cream evenly on the cake layer and place over cream next cake layer. Continue until all layers are in the cake tin. Spread to the top of cake cream and cooked-crushed cake leftovers.

Leave the cake to the refrigerator overnight so that all layers are well absorbed.

Remove the cake tin. To decorate the cake, heat honey a little until the honey is liquid, add mandarins (cleaned and divided to sectors) and watch that  mandarins will be beautifully covered with honey. Place mandarins to cake and add fresh thyme sprigs.

Recipe has made in cooperation with Valio Eesti AS