{"id":2136,"date":"2026-02-15T18:41:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipe4thecook.com\/\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:44","slug":"icelandic-christmas-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/icelandic-christmas-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic Christmas Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>1 C. white sugar<br \/>\n3\/4 C. butter or margarine<br \/>\n2 eggs<br \/>\n2 1\/2 C. all-purpose flour<br \/>\n2 tsp. baking powder<br \/>\n3\/4 C. milk<br \/>\n1\/2 C. raisins<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp. lemon flavoring<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp. cardamom flavoring<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 350. Grease one 11-inch loaf pan. Cream butter or margarine and sugar  until light fluffy. Add eggs one at time beating well after each one. Stir in milk, lemon  and cardamom flavorings. Stir in flour and baking powder. Sift a little flour over raisins  then stir them into batter. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake at 350 for 55-60 minutes.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&quot;And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.&quot; (Romans 8:28)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cake<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/icelandic-christmas-cake\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}