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Toasted almond cake

A layer cake, with toasted almonds in the chocolate part.

193,4754.4/5 for 27 ratings

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Last modified on: July 5^th 2016

For 1 cake, you will need:

1 150 g flour
2 ½ sachet baking powder
3 3 eggs
4 125 g butter
5 100 g whole almonds
6 200 g icing sugar
7 10 g Vanilla sugar
8 20 g powdered cocoa
9 4 tablespoons milk
Total weight: 820 grams

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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.

Roast 100 g whole almonds:

Preheat oven to 240°C or 464°F and put almonds on a baking sheet.

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.

Add 3 eggs, then sieve onto mixture 150 g flour and ½ sachet baking powder.

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.

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.

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 %

% 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 : 3.96 €

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Source

Home made from a Gaston Lenôtre recipe.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Marzipan (almond paste), How to make marzipan decorations, Rich hazelnut buttercream, Almond cream or frangipane, Millefeuille, ... All
	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Hollandaise sauce, Savoury mini-madeleines with 2 cheeses, Old style brioche, Fruit crumble, Fish fillet with preserved lemons, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chestnut cake, Choux pastry (pâte à choux), Hollandaise sauce, Provençal colombier for Pentecost, Sandwich bread, ... All
	Whole almonds: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Praline, Tomato pesto, Grandma Solange's biscuits, Rice pudding with fruit and nuts, Chinese style chicken, ... All

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