Traditional Swedish Birthday Cake

In English, i believe we would refer to this as strawberry creme pie

The yellow cake is made this way

3 eggs

1 1/2 cup sugar

1 1/2 cup flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 cup water

Bake at 350

The filling is fresh or frozen strawberries, i like to simmer a cup of frozen strawberries and thicken with a teaspoon of cornstarch

The cream filling is simply very thick vanilla sauce. Cheat and use instant pudding mix.

When the cake is cooled seperate into layers and cover with vanilla cream, then strawberry layer, reassemble and top with unsweetened whipped cream. A half pint of heavy whipping cream would work.

Sprinkle cocoa powder on top.

Swedish food and desserts are traditionally not extreemly sweet. There is a great love of candy (godis) in Sweden but the food is not usually flavored with sugar as the Southern US where i am from.