Cakes

Soda cake

From
Steina
Oven
190 °C190 °C (375 °F)

Ingredients

  • 300 g butter, softened11 oz butter, softened
  • 300 g sugar11 oz sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • 350 g plain flour12 oz plain flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 50 g potato starch (or cornflour)2 oz potato starch (or cornflour)
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • 150 g chocolate, chopped5½ oz chocolate, chopped
  • 1 orange, grated zest
  • juice of the orange
  • milk, as needed ('+ -' probably means '±', i.e. a little more milk if needed.)

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 190°C and grease 2 ring tins (tins with a hole in the middle).Heat the oven to 375 °F and grease 2 ring tins (tins with a hole in the middle).
  2. Beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then add the eggs one at a time.
  3. Then mix in all the dry ingredients (flour, potato starch and baking powder), together with the grated orange zest and the juice.
  4. Finally stir in the chopped chocolate and the milk.
  5. Divide the batter between the two tins.
  6. Bake at 190°C for about 60 minutes.Bake at 375 °F for about 60 minutes.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Sódakaka
(Steina)
300gr. smjör - 300gr. sykur 6 egg - 350gr. hveiti - 2 tsk. lyftid. 50gr. kartöflumj. - 2 msk. mjólk 150gr. súkkul. - hýði af 1 appels. + safinn + - mjólk.
Smjörl + sykur = egg svo allt þurrefni. Síðast súkkul. + mjólk 2 form m/gati. 190°c í ca. 60 min