Runeberg's cakes

You may also soften the cakes with some apple juice or milk,
or then not to do this at all.

 Finland celebrates its national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg today and what would be better way to do that than with the delicious winter treats Runeberg's cakes (Runebergintorttu in Finnish).

Recipe:

200 g butter
2,5 dl sugar
2 eggs
1 dl butter milk
1 dl cream
3 dl flour
3 dl breadcrumbs (finely ground)
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp almond extract (the amount of extract you need can vary a lot depending on the extract you have used. In this recipe I have used a Norwegian almond extract from Idun)

Garnish:
2 dl powdered sugar
1-2 tbsp water

Mix well the butter that is at room temperature with the sugar. Add the eggs and mix again. Add the buttermilk and cream to the mix. Then add the almond extract. Mix the flour, breadcrumps and baking soda together and add to the dough.

Spoon the dough i.e. to cupcake cases or similar. Make a hole in each cake and put raspberry jam in them. Bake for about 20 minutes at 200 ℃.

Let the cakes to cool down and add again some raspberry jam to the holes. Make the frosting by adding some water to powdered sugar and garnish the top of the cake with it.

The picture is a bit dark but this shows better
how the frosting should be around the jam.