For 1 cake, you will need:
- 0
150 g flour - 1
½ sachet baking powder - 2
3 eggs - 3
125 g butter - 4
100 g whole almonds - 5
200 g icing sugar - 6
10 g Vanilla sugar - 7
20 g powdered cocoa - 8
4 tablespoons milk - Total weight: 820 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 57 min. | 1 hour 5 min. | 2 hours 2 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 10 min.
Stage 2 - 5 min.
Put them in the oven for about 5 minutes, until they are dried and lightly browned. They become crunchier, and develop a different flavour.
Stage 3 - 10 min.
Remove from oven, allow to cool, and chop roughly with a large knife. Set aside.
Stage 4 - 5 min.
In the bowl of a mixer, put 125 g butter, cut in small pieces, then 10 g Vanilla sugar, then sieve (to remove any lumps) 200 g icing sugar on top.
Stage 5 - 3 min.
Mix on medium speed for a few minutes.
Stage 6 - 5 min.
Stage 7 - 5 min.
Mix on medium speed until the mixture is smooth and soft.
Stage 8 - 3 min.
Take ¼ of mixture from bowl.
Stage 9 - 3 min.
To this add 20 g powdered cocoa and 4 tablespoons milk.
Stage 10 - 5 min.
Mix until nice and chocolatey, then add 2/3 of the almonds.
Stage 11 - 3 min.
Add the remaining almonds to the plain mixture.
It's normal to have far more "yellow" than "brown" mixture.
It's normal to have far more "yellow" than "brown" mixture.
Stage 12 - 5 min.
Make the cake: put a yellow layer in the bottom of your mould, then a thinner brown layer, and so on, finishing with yellow layer on top.
Stage 13 - 1 hour
Reduce oven temperature to 200°C or 392°F, and cook cake for about one hour. Check cooking after 40 minutes.
Turn out while still warm and leave to cool on a wire rack.
Turn out while still warm and leave to cool on a wire rack.
Remarks
For a prettier cake: when assembling the layers, put a yellow layer, then add 2 rolls of brown mixture with a forcing bag, then another yellow layer, etc.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 3,260 Kcal or 13,649 Kj | 60 gr | 350 gr | 183 gr |
| 163 % | 23 % | 33 % | 28 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 398 Kcal or 1,666 Kj | 7 gr | 43 gr | 22 gr |
| 20 % | 3 % | 4 % | 3 % |
| Per cake | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 3,260 Kcal or 13,649 Kj | 60 gr | 350 gr | 183 gr |
| 163 % | 23 % | 33 % | 28 % |
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Source
Home made from a Gaston Lenôtre recipe.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Jam doughnuts, Millefeuille, Marzipan (almond paste), Swiss meringues, Little Christmas biscuits, ... All |
 | Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pogne de Romans, Cornmeal baps for Anne, Cherry clafoutis, Gâteau Breton (Brittany butter cake), Grapefruit moelleux, ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Super-green, super-thrifty soup, Curried prawn risotto, Asparagus "en petit pois", Crêpes Suzette, Green beans with tomatoes, ... All |
 | Whole almonds: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Frozen Nougat, Chocolate mendiants, Granola, Tomato pesto, Chinese style chicken, ... All |
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