Mias saffron cake

Hi there,

Friday at last. Yesterday I baked a wonderful saffron cake and I thought I'd share the recipe with you. Around Christmas Swedish families eat a lot of cakes and buns containing saffron.
This is one of our favourite cakes around this time.





This recipe will be written in English only.
Swedish friends can use the recipe anyways, since I put the Swedish measurements in parenthesis.

You will need the following ingredients:

3 eggs
1 cup of suger (2,5 dl)
1 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup of milk (1 dl)
0,5 grams of saffron
1,7 ounce real butter (50 gr)
1,5 cups of flour (3,5 dl)
2 tsp baking soda
1 pinch of salt
1/3 cup of raisins (1 dl)           (Can be left out if you don't like raisins)

20 almonds and 1 tbs butter for the baking tin,

Some powdered suger for dekoration.

1. Put the oven on 350 degrees F. (175 grader)
2. Beat eggs, suger and vanilla until white and fluffy.
3. Melt the butter in a sauce pan. Add the milk and the saffron. Heat the mixture and set a side.
4. Add the saffronmix to the eggs and stir a bit,
5. Sift flour, bakingsoda and salt into the batter. Use a spatula to gently turn it in.
6. Put 1 tbs butter in your baking tin and put it in the oven for a short moment in order to melt.
   Use a brush to evenly spread the butter around in the tin. Grind about 2/3 of the almonds.
   Sprinkel it on to the buttered tin. Make sure it covers the whole tin in order to keep the cake from getting stuck. Chop the remaining almonds coarsely and spread them in the bottom of the tin. 
7. Add the raisins to the batter and pour it in to the tin.
8. Bake for about 30-40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
9. Allow the cake to cool a bit before turning it over and sprinkel it with powdered suger.

Hope you'll enjoy this as much as we do.
Feel free to share the recipe with friends and family.

Take care,
Maria