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Gâteau Nantais

This traditional cake from the French city of Nantes is deliciously moist, flavoured with almonds, vanilla and rum. For the finishing touch, the top is covered with boozy white icing.

18,2154.1/5 for 27 ratings

Last modified on: January 8^th 2017

For 1 cake, you will need:

1 125 g butter
2 125 g caster sugar
3 10 g Vanilla sugar
4 50 g flour
5 100 g ground almonds
6 3 tablespoons rum
7 2 pinches salt
8 3 eggs
9 100 g icing sugar
10 1 tablespoon rum
Total weight: 720 grams

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How long does it take?

Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
23 min.	30 min.	35 min.	1 hour 28 min.

Keeping: A few days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 7 min.

Preheat the oven to 360°F (180°C).

Put into a food-mixer bowl: 125 g butter cut into small pieces, 125 g caster sugar, 10 g Vanilla sugar, 50 g flour, 100 g ground almonds, 3 tablespoons rum and 2 pinches salt.

Start mixing on slow speed.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Break 3 eggs into a jug or bowl and beat briefly with a fork.

Stage 3 - 1 min.

Add the eggs to the mixture.

Stage 4 - 4 min.

Continue beating until evenly mixed.

Stage 5 - 3 min.

Spread the mixture in a non-stick cake tin or mould.

Stage 6 - 35 min.

Bake for 30 or 40 minutes.

Stage 7 - 2 min.

Turn out while hot and leave to cool on a wire rack

Stage 8

Prepare the icing by mixing 100 g icing sugar with about 1 tablespoon rum (you may well need to vary the amount of rum).

Pour the icing on top of the cake.

Stage 9 - 3 min.

Spread the icing with a palette-knife.

Stage 10 - 30 min.

Leave the icing to set before serving.

Remarks

It is best to leave the butter out of the fridge for at least 2 hours before using. Softer butter mixes in better.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,076 Kcal or 12,879 Kj	43 gr	290 gr	176 gr
154 %	17 %	27 %	27 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
427 Kcal or 1,788 Kj	6 gr	40 gr	24 gr
21 %	2 %	4 %	4 %

Per cake
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,076 Kcal or 12,879 Kj	43 gr	290 gr	176 gr
154 %	17 %	27 %	27 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 cake : 4.89 €

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Source

Home made.

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	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spinach and Comté Loaf, Lime meringue tart, Turban of sole with langoustines, Dublin fruit scones, Green bean purée, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Apple charlotte with toasted brioche, Rice pudding with fruit and nuts, Cranachan, Santiago Cake, Cooking sugar, ... All
	Ground almonds: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Fruit crumble, Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart, Nanou's chocolate cake, Almond macaroon cake, Stuffed prunes, ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chocolate almond cookies, Mini lemon millefeuilles, Pistachio "Financiers", X-Files cookies, Amiens macaroons, ... All

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