Finnish style mocha squares

Finnish style mocha squares.

My mom used to make this dessert when I was kid. I don’t know the correct name for these in English so I call them Finnish mocha squares. They were my favorites with glass of cold milk. In my family we always used hundreds-and-thousands for decoration but some use coconut flakes.

This recipe will give you one oven pan:

5 dl flour

2 dl milk

Mix the eggs and sugar
into firm foam.

3 tsp baking powder

2 tsp vanilla sugar

3 tbsp. cacao powder

200 g melted butter

4 eggs

3 dl sugar

Add some flour to the foam...

Set the oven for 200 ˚C. Melt the butter. Mix the dry ingredients together. Mix the sugar and eggs into a firm white foam. Here the best result will be if the eggs are warm as room temperature. Add some flour to the foam and then some milk, mix carefully together. Continue like this until you have mixed all the flour and milk in the dough. Finally pour the cooled melted butter in the dough and mix it. Pour the mix on an oven pan and let the cake be in the oven about 15 minutes.

Pour the dough on an oven pan.

...and then some milk and continue with
flour and then with milk etc.

While the cake is in the oven you can prepare the icing. You will need

500 g powder sugar

2 tsp vanilla sugar

1 tbsp. cacao powder

5-7 tbsp. strong coffee

50 g melted butter

Melt the butter.  Mix the powder sugar, vanilla sugar and cacao powder together. Add the coffee and finally the melted butter.

Put the icing on the cake and
decorate as you like.

Spread the icing on the cake that has cooled down. The icing will get a bit hard when it gets cold so you should spread it rather quickly. Decorate the icing with hundreds-and-thousands.