Made with vanilla sponge, meringue, almonds, custard and whipped cream – Norwegians love this cake so much they nicknamed it "the world's best cake"

It may look complicated and difficult to make based on the photo, but it actually seems like a pretty simple cake to make once you break down the recipe into its components... and I say that even as someone who doesn't do much baking.

It's just a basic white cake batter with uncooked meringue smeared on top of it before baking. And once that bakes you just cut the cake in half, then put whipped cream folded into custard onto one half of the cake, then put the other half of the cake on top of that.

You could probably even make a pretty decent version of it using a boxed cake mix, custard powder or canned custard, and miracle whip or aerosol whip cream. About the only thing you would actually have to do from scratch is whip some egg-whites and sugar into stiff peaks for the meringue. But even for that you could cheat by buying boxed egg-whites so you don't need to separate them yourself, or waste any yolks (since you're not making the custard from scratch using them).