Dinner 9

Sandwich cake (Smörgåstårta)

For the ninth dinner in the "Kyoto Dinner Experiments" we were invited home to Tani and her husband. We made them a swedish "smörgåstårta" and they showed 6 different ways to prepare octopus.

Ingredients

24 slices of bread

Inside the cake

4 dl sour cream

2dl mayonnaise

3 hard-boiled eggs

2 table spoons of roe

2 dl shrimps

1 table spoon dill

2 table spoons of lemon juice

salt

pepper

Outside the cake

200 g philadelphia cheese

4 dl sour cream

2 hard-boiled egg

2 dl shrimps

10 slices of smoked salmon

1/2 roe

1/2 cucumber

tomatoes

dill

Cut away the edges of the bread.

Put 6 slices of bread close to each other on a plate.

Mix all the ingredients of the stuffing and add 1/3 of the stuffing on top of the bread.

Add another layer of the bread and add half of the remaining stuffing on top.

Add another layer of bread and add the remaining stuffing on top.

Put the last 6 slices of bread on top of the cake.

Mix the philadelphia cheese and the sour cream and cover the outside of the cake with it.

Cut the cucumber and add them to the sides of the cake.

Cut the boiled eggs and put it on top of the cake.

Decorate the cake with smoked salmon, shrimps, cucumber, tomatoes and dill.