Seths & Tinas bursdagskake

The original recipe is for Runeberg's torte, a traditional Finnish pastry, which is eaten the 5th of February. The normal way is to bake the dough in muffin forms (for 10 minutes) and put some raspberry jam on them afterwards (I used cherry jam because I like it more). 

But, the cake variation by fii:

Dough:

200 g margarine or butter

2 dl sugar
2 eggs
2 dl wheat flour
2 dl bread crumbs
1 dl almond powder
2 ts baking powder
pinch of rum essence

Filling:
cherry jam

Frosting:
1 dl vanilla curd
2 dl powder sugar
3 ts lemon juice
3 gelatine leaves
red food color additive

Mix all the dough ingredients and bake in 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Let the cake cool down before you split it into two halves and spread the cherry jam in between them.

Put the gelatine soak in cold water. Stir the vanilla curd and the powder sugar together and add the red color. Heat the lemon juice to boiling and melt the gelatine into it. Pour the juice to the vanilla curd mixture while stirring well. Put the filling to the fridge for a while (10-15 minutes I think - I had to be away for a longer time, and that's why the topping became so knobbly). After that stir on top of the cake and decorate with a marsipan figure and heart-shaped sprinkles.