Cake #108 - Licorice Toffee Cake

Sunday Classic Cake - Licorice Toffee Cake.

To be exact, the cake may not be a classic one but the Hopeatoffee Licorice Toffee it is made of, is a classic in Finland, since the 1960's.

Licorice Toffee Cake

Sponge
100 g Hopeatoffee or other licorice toffee sweets
200 g butter
4 eggs
200 ml granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla sugar
400 ml plain flour
100 ml cocoa powder
2 tsp baking powder
100 ml milk

Icing
100 g Hopeatoffee or other licorice toffee sweets
150 ml fresh cream
300 ml icing sugar

1. Melt the toffee sweets and butter in a pan on low heat and mix well.
2. Beat eggs and sugar until white and fluffy.
3. Mix together all dry ingredients and fold them into the egg and sugar mix together with licorice and butter and cold milk.
4. Grease and flour a Ø 24 cm cake pan and pour the batter in it.
5. Bake in 175 C / 350 F about 45-50 minutes.
6. Let cool.
7. For the icing, place the toffee sweets and cream into a pan. Mix on low heat until the sweets melt. Let cool and then sieve in icing sugar.
8. Spread icing on the cake and let the cake set for a couple of hours in a cool place. Garnish with licorice toffee pieces.