Classic apple cake (Fyriskaka) from Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break, with Recipes for Pastries, Breads, and Other Treats (page 94) by Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall

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  • msholl on November 28, 2025

    I have made this cake many times, and it always comes out great. Sometimes I use cake flour instead of AP flour, which gives it a nice, light crumb.

  • eliza on October 29, 2025

    This made a really delicious cake; I added a bit of cardamom extract and the cardamom wasn’t too strong for us. I made this cake because I had all the ingredients having bought Ontario apples at the farmers market. I used one egg from my sister’s chicks and one flax egg. Like everyone else, there were too many apples (half the amount would be good) so I cooked the extra slices in a dish to make a compote. Mine was also flat so I might try an 8” pan next time. Very easy to make. Took 50 min to bake through at 350 fan. Edit: took this to a group and of about a dozen people and everyone liked it. Even inspired one person to use cardamom more.

  • stockholm28 on November 03, 2019

    I thought this was delicious, but I agree the cardamom flavor is quite pronounced. I love cardamom so this was fine for me. You don’t need to break out a mixer for this and it comes together fairly quickly.

  • TrishaCP on October 22, 2016

    We loved the cardamom flavor of the cake, but it is quite strong. I made sure to thoroughly crush the cardamom seeds, because I did not do so sufficiently for the cardamom cake, and I preferred the results here. I only needed about half of the apples specified, and I'm not sure why- maybe I cut them too thinly? I ended up overlapping apple slices to fit in as many as possible. Like with some of the other cakes in this book, this was quite a flat cake. Not sure if that was intentional or whether I had issues with the cake rising properly, but it still tastes good.

  • Astrid5555 on October 09, 2016

    No unanimous verdict. While I loved the pronounced cardamom taste, the rest of the family found it too grown-up. On the plus side, very quick to make.

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