Norwegian Cake
orwegian Gold Cake
1 cup soft butter
5 eggs
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. almond extract
1 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 1/3 cups sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
Allow butter to become soft, but do not melt. Place butter and flour in mixing bowl. Beat 5 min. at low speed. Add eggs, one at a time, blending each egg at slow speed. Sift together sugar, baking powder and salt. Add graduatl to creamed mixture. Add extract. Mix 2 min. after all sugar has been added. Turn into 10" tube pan that has been greased with 2 tbsp. butter and then sprinkled with fine bread crumbs. [Note: I used Crisco instead of butter and flour instead of bread crumbs.] Bake 1 hour in 325 degree oven. Invert to cool [when I did this, the cake fell out of the pan, so let it cool about five minutes, then invert on to rack and then cool.] Sprinkle top with confectioners' sugar.
A bit of googling revealed that Stoughten still celebrates Syttende Mai in a big way. Below are the prince and princess and king and queen of the 2010 festivities.