Kladdkaka

Kladdkaka is a popular Swedish dessert. This dense, compact cake similar to a molten chocolate cake features a crisp exterior and soft, gooey interior. The ingredients are flour, eggs, butter, sugar, vanilla essence and cocoa powder. The main difference between kladdkaka and other cakes is the lack of baking powder. It is sometimes eaten with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream and raspberry coulis and/or raspberries.^[1][2][3][4]

Kladdkaka

Kladdkaka with decoration
Alternative names	Chocolate mud cake
Type	Chocolate cake
Course	Dessert
Place of origin	Sweden
Main ingredients	Sugar, flour, butter, egg and cocoa

The name derives from the Swedish word kladdig, meaning 'sticky' or 'messy'.

Since 2008, the official kladdkaka day is 7 November.^[5]

History

There are two main theories regarding the cake's origin. In 1938, when baking powder was difficult to get hold of in Sweden, Gudrun Isaksson, a woman from Örebro, used an American brownie recipe and simply left out the baking powder.^[6] The other theory is verified,^[7] but both may still be accurate. In 1968, Margareta Wickman, was served a chocolate cake at a restaurant in Paris and was given the recipe. She later published the recipe in a couple of different variants in the Swedish magazine Vecko-Journalen, during the late 1970s.^[8]

See also

• Molten chocolate cake
• List of cakes
• Coffee bread in Swedish cuisine

References

1. "Swedish chocolate cake (kladdkaka)". scrummylane.com. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
2. "I dag firar vi kladdkakans dag". Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved 4 April 2018.
3. "Marabous klassiska mjölkchoklad blir kladdkaka - Mitt kök". Expressen (in Swedish). 19 February 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
4. Johansen, Signe (24 November 2011). Secrets of Scandinavian Cooking . . . Scandilicious. Saltyard Books. p. 180. ISBN 978-1444703924.
5. Karlsson, Ulrika (2015-11-09). "I dag firar vi kladdkakans dag". gp.se. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
6. Nyheter, S. V. T. (6 November 2015). "Kladdkakan firas idag – krockar med Gustav Adolfsbakelsen". SVT Nyheter. Sveriges Television. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
7. "Kladdkakan". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2024-06-28.
8. Hammarkrantz, Oskar (2018-04-03). "90-talets populäraste maträtter – vilka håller måttet i dag?". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 2024-06-28.