Smorgastorta Swedish Sandwich Cake

Smörgastarta is a popular sandwich cake from Sweden. This tasty sandwich layer cake is a real classic of Swedish cuisine.

Ingredients

Ingredients for the bread:

• 650 g wheat flour
• 50 g fresh yeast
• 500 ml of water
• 2 tsp sunflower oil
• 2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp maple syrup

Ingredients for the filling:

• 250 g shrimps – cooked and peeled
• 3 eggs – hard-cooked
• 1 avocado
• 175 g salad cream
• 400 g cream Fraiche
• 100 g yogurt
• 7 tsp lemon juice
• 200 g cream cheese
• 200 g cucumber
• 2 tbsp chopped parsley

Usually, I do it with salmon, but this time I did it without salmon. If you want to do that with the salmon, then you need 200 g smoked salmon.

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Instructions

Bread:

1. Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water.
2. Place all ingredients in a bowl and knead until smooth.
3. Form the dough into a ball and leave to rise in a warm place for 45 minutes.
4. Knead the dough again and put into a springform pan.
5. Leave to rise for another 45 minutes.
6. Preheat the oven to 200°C. Bake in the middle of the oven for 40 minutes.
7. Let the bread cool well. Then cut off the bread crust at the top and sides.
8. Then cut the bread horizontally twice so that 3 slices of the same thickness are formed.

First filling:

1. Mix 100 g salad cream,150 g cream Fraiche, 50 g yogurt, 3 teaspoons lemon juice and 2 tablespoons parsley and season with salt and pepper.
2. Chop the shrimps and eggs into small pieces and stir into the cream.
3. Spread the mixture on the bottom of the pan and place the second pan on top.

Second filling:

1. Puree the avocado flesh with 150 g cream Fraiche, 50 g yogurt and 3 tsp lemon juice.
2. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
3. Peel the cucumber and remove the seeds. Cut into small cubes and sprinkle over them.
4. Spread the other half of the avocado cream on top.
5. Place the top on top.

For the coating:

1. Mix 200 g cream cheese, 100 g cream Fraiche, 75 g salad cream and 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Spread it on the cake.
2. At the end spread half of the cream on the second base and cover with shrimps and eggs.

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Photo by  iuliia_n

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