Risto Mikkola’s pastry combines two delicacies loved by Finns: mulled wine and chocolate.
The chocolate tart can be decorated with mulled apples. Pasi Liesimaa
One of the absolute flavors of the Christmas season is mulled wine. Glögi is a drink of which there are many different variations. There is gentler and milder, there is strong and spicy.
Even this fall, the taste of mulled wine can be found in many foods. For example, Kolme Kaveri has mulled wine as its novelty ice cream flavor. In the past, mulled ice cream has been available at least at the Porvoo ice cream factory in Wanha.
Glög has also been tasted in Fazer’s glögi balls, Jaffa cookies, mulled honey and glögite.
Hartwall’s glög flavored tentacle, which was launched this fall, is tipped to be this year’s drink hit. Already last year, Finns were excited to combine these two favorite drinks.
In addition to Glögilonkero, you can find recipes for glögisangria and glögispritz online. Alko also has ready-made sparkling wines.
It can be concluded that mulled wine is a pleasant taste for Finns.
Enthusiastic about this, the chef Risto Mikkola developed a pastry that also combines the two favorite delicacies of the Christmas season: mulled wine and chocolate.
The mulled spice also goes well with chocolate cake. Pasi Liesimaa
– Chocolate mulled tart is wonderfully delicious. On top of that, the recipe is easy, says Mikkola.
In addition to the cake, mulled wine also flavors the apples, which are boiled in mulled wine broth and seasoned with mulled wine spice. If the mulled spice accumulated in the dry cabinet has not been used before, that problem no longer exists. For this cake, you can cleverly use the murheenkryn from the spice cabinet, which is difficult to use for anything other than home-made mulled wine.
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Chocolate cake
200 g of butter
200 g of dark chocolate
4 eggs
2.5 dl of sugar
2 dl wheat flour
3 tablespoons mulled wine spices
1. Heat the oven to 180 degrees. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Break the chocolate into small pieces. Add the chocolate to the butter and stir until the chocolate melts.
2. Beat the eggs and sugar until fluffy. Mix the butter mixture, flour and mulled wine spices. Pour the dough into a greased pan, preferably a loose-bottomed pan (about 23 centimeters in diameter).
3. Bake the cake in the lower part of the oven for 25–30 minutes. The cake should remain loose in the middle. Let the cake cool. Sieve a little powdered sugar on top. Serve the cake with cardamom whipped cream and mulled apples.
Cardamom foam
2 dl of whipped cream
2 tablespoons of powdered sugar
1 teaspoon cardamom
1. Put all the ingredients in a bowl and whisk.
2. Pour over the cooled cake.
Mulled apples
2 apples, diced
3 dl mulled wine
2 tablespoons of sugar
1 tablespoon of vanilla sugar
1 tablespoon mulled wine spice
1. Put mulled wine, sugar, vanilla sugar and mulled wine seasoning in a pot and bring to a boil. Add the apples and cook for a couple of minutes.
2. Allow to cool and remove the apples from the broth and decorate the cake.
Tip! You can boil the leftover mulled broth into syrup and use it to flavor dishes.
Drink recommendation
The 7.5% Gancia Asti (€12.99) is a wonderfully soft, sweetly fruity and fresh sparkling wine from Italy, perfect for sweet treats. Available from Alko and grocery stores.