The berry season is here. Strawberries and blueberries are delicious, but Finland is also known for its cloudberries. My friend brought me some cloudberries that she picked in the morning, and I made my favorite pie with them. This is Juhani’s favorite pie, so that he can say the recipe by memory.

When we think of pie in Japan, we usually think of baked sweets with a crispy puff pastry, like apple pie, but in Finland, it’s a little different.

In Finnish language, pie is called “piirakka”. The famous Karjalanpiirakka is not a puffy crust, but a hard rye dough. And this lakkapiirakka, cloudberry pie is also a crispy and moist dough made of wheat flour and whole wheat flour. It is similar to a tart in Japan.

Depending on how you shape it, you can make the walls and sides like a tart. In this recipe, I will show you the easiest way to make the bottom of the dough.

Finnish Cloudberry Pie, LAKKAPIIRAKKA

Name: Finnish Cloudberry Pie, LAKKAPIIRAKKA
Total time: 60 min
Ingredients: 100 g butter; 60 g white sugar; 1 egg; 75 g wheat flour; 50 g whole wheat flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 250 g rahka (cream cheese, *1); 50 g fresh cream; 1 egg; 30 g brown sugar; 10 g lemon juice (lime juice); 150 g cloudberries

Berries in Finland are strawberries, blueberries, and cloudberries. I used freshly picked cloudberries to make a traditional Finnish pie.

Prep Time 0 mins

Cook Time 1 hr

Rest After Cook 1 hr

Keyword Dessert

Servings 1 24cm cake pan

INGREDIENTS

Pie dough

butter 100 g
white sugar 60 g
egg 1
wheat flour 75 g
whole wheat flour 50 g
baking powder 1 tsp

Filling

rahka (cream cheese, *1) 250 g
fresh cream 50 g
egg 1
brown sugar 30 g
lemon juice (lime juice) 10 g

Topping

cloudberries 150 g

EQUIPMENT

24cm cake pan
cookie sheet

INSTRUCTIONS

Preparation

Bring butter to room temperature.
Mix all the flour for the dough.
Line a cake pan with a cookie sheet.
Preheat the oven to 200°C.

Making the dough

Add the sugar to the butter and mix until it turns whitish.
Add the eggs and mix well.
Add the flour mixture in three parts, mixing well after each addition.
Pour the dough into the bottom of the cake pan. The dough is sticky, so you can use your fingers dipped in water to spread it out.
Place in the oven and bake for 10 minutes. At this point, the dough should be raw.

Making the filling

Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
Pour the filling over the baked dough.
Sprinkle the cloudberries on top of the filling.
Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes.
When cloudberries are slightly browned, they are ready.
Cool thoroughly and refrigerate. The next day or later is best when the dough and filling go well.

NOTES

I use a dairy product called rahka for the filling. It is a product between yogurt and cheese, and can be substituted with cream cheese in this recipe.

Rahkat ja leivontatuotteet

Rahka on maitohyllyn moniottelija. Se on ruokaisa välipala ja monipuolinen jälkiruokien pohja. Leipurin käsissä rahka tekee taikojaan leivonnaisten täytteissä j...

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