Fir spruce tips cake. I made one!

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Fir spruce tips cake. I made one! It tastes wonderful of conifer forest on a warm day!

I found this recipe and wanted to try it out.

This is the original recipe: 

-1 cup of yogurt (here 0.5l)

-1 cup of flour

-1 cup of sugar

-1.5 cups of chopped young spruce or fir shoots

-Some oil

-4 eggs

-1 packet of baking powder

-If you like the grated zest of 2 lemons

It's all about the ratio of the ingredients to each other, so you can really use any container (glass, bowl). All ingredients are mixed together until a homogeneous mass is formed. The cake is baked in a preheated oven at 180 C degrees fan for about 30 minutes.

My recipe

This is a test so I took a really small container - 100ml

-1 cup of yogurt (home made)

-1 cup of walnut flower

-1 cup of cut dried dates and date paste

-1.5 cups of chopped young spruce and fir shoots

-2 tea spoons of olive oil

-2 eggs

-1/3 packet of baking powder

I mixed all the ingredients except the spruces, then added the spruces without chopping and blended all the ingredients.

I preheated the oven to 180 C fan and baked for 15 minutes, then checked. It was already brownish, thus I switched off the fan and reduced temperature to 150C. 

If you do the whole portion, you might need 180C for 30 minutes, but I would not use fan. 

Collecting tips:

When collecting, please ensure that you only take a few treetops per tree and, preferably from lower branches. And be careful not to collect yew spruces. They are poisonous!

Monek Marie

Hmm. I may have to try this. Thanks for sharing

Torey

I have made a Douglas Fir & Olive Oil cake and it was very good. This one looks lighter with the yogurt. Its so wet I can't harvest much at the moment but I could get fir needles and try this.

The fir tips give it a lemony flavour.

karenjanicki

I would never have thought to use pine in a cake. I like pine needle tea. I'm not sure about a cake, though I'm a bit intrigued.

Torey

@karenjanicki If you make a pine cake, let us know how the flavour is compared to fir.

Megan Venturella

Thanks for posting with pictures. I always forget which tree is which. This sounds amazing!

jowitt.europe

@Monek Marie @torey @karenjanicki @Megan Venturella it is worth trying. I had a friend herbalist today for herbal tea and this cake. We loved it. Tomorrow another friend comes to taste. Then I have to make another one for the third friend. It is light and it has this fir tree flavour. It might turn into my seasonal hit!

silvertipgrizz

It sure looks good...surprisingly lol...I wonder what fruits might go good with this for a double kick of goodness???

judsoncarroll4

Neat!