Fragilité is a forgotten Danish cake. At least not as known as flødeboller, napoleonshatte or kransekage...I hope with this post I can help to get it out from its unworthy position. And I hope it will show up in bakeries and confectioneries soon, because fragilité is the uncrowned queen of Danish cakes.

I already like it much better than any other sweets I have tried in Denmark. It is just as soft, light and fragile as a piece of cake can be.

Ingredients

120 g of a mixture of toasted almond and hazelnut

4 egg whites

180 sugar

Toast the nuts on a 170 degrees for 10 minutes, grind them. Whisk the egg whites into a stif foam, slowly add the sugar. Carefully add the grounded nuts to it. Use a big baking mold, grease it, use greased baking paper, pour in the dough, bake it on a 170 degrees for 15-20 minutes. It burns really quickly, be careful. It means do not leave the kitchen while baking. Make the filling meanwhile your cake is in the oven.

For the raspberry cream filling

100 g fresh/frozen raspberries

30 g sugar

200 ml cream

25 g icing sugar

3 g agar (boiled in hot water)

Keep the cream in the fridge and only take it out before you beat it. Make a stif cream, add the icing sugar. Boil the raspberries with the sugar and the agar for a couple of minutes, cool it down a bit. Carefully add to the whipped cream. Keep it in the fridge for at least half an hour before using.

Nougat and coffee cream filling

25 g soft butter

25 g nougat

50 g icing sugar

1 eggyolk

1 tbsp coffee

Mix the soft butter with the nougat and then add the eggyolk, the icing sugar and the coffee to it. Let it sit for a while before using.

All the ingredients I used were organic, and as local as they could be. I always use local sugar, cream and eggs. Almond and hazelnut are from Europe. I used my own frozen raspberries from last year. I always write it, and I do again. Be a responsible consumer and spend money on ingredients. You will see, your cakes will taste way better, and you will also sleep better, believe me.

Have a sweet weekend!