Beer cake (3 liter)

• 1 egg
• 330 ml hvidtøl

1. Break egg and beat it in bowl 1.
2. Pour hvidtøl into bowl 1.

• 500 g wheat flour
• 400 g dark brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground cloves
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1. Mix all the dry ingredients together in bowl 2. Be sure to break up all lumps, and that everything is mixed well together.
2. Pour the content of bowl 1 into bowl 2 while stirring. Continue stirring until you are sure the dough is uniform.
3. Pour the dough into the baking molds.
4. Bake in oven for 60 minutes at 175°C.
5. Let the cake cool down.
6. Cut into slices and butter them with cold butter, when serving.

Serve sliced and buttered with cold butter. Wait until the cake has cooled down completely. It doesnt have as much flavor if you eat it warm.

Bowl 1 should be 3/4 liter, bowl 2 should be 2 liter, the molds should be 3 liter, but a little less than that is okay. The dough is approximately 1 1/2 liter before it is baked.

If you are out of dark brown sugar, normal sugar can be used instead.

Hvidtøl is a dark, sweet, low-alcohol beer. It is top fermented, and brewed on toasted malt. The original hvidtøl was brewed on air-dried malt, and therefore had a light color. Hence the name (hvidt = white, øl = beer). It was the only type of beer brewed on Danish farms for centuries. During the 1800s it changed to be brewed on darker malts, and therefore got a darker color. From around 1900 hvidtøl had found its current format. Hvidtøl is more like a soft drink than what we nowadays understand by beer.