Almond cake is a nutritious and delicious dessert, made with almonds, butter and egg. Discover how to make it at home with this easy and simple recipe.
This almond cake recipe is a very easy recipe to make and it is very tasty. It is an ideal cake to taste both in snacks and in dessert.
We can eat almonds alone or by including them in many recipes for both meals and pastries, as is the case in this post.
Almonds are used not only in the culinary world, but also in the world of cosmetics, almonds are highly demanded to make body oils, creams, body gels, shampoos, and soaps.
In the pharmaceutical industry, almonds are used and in this case bitter almonds for the preparation of medicines.
Like most nuts, almonds are heart-healthy, so a few almonds every day is very good for us, they are ideal as an appetizer or snack.
Almonds are dried fruits that provide us with many beneficial properties for our body.
From a nutritional point of view, almonds provide us with:
- B vitamins: B1, B2, B3, B6, B9,
- Vitamin E.
- Folic acid.
- Minerals: potassium, calcium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, zinc.
The almond cake can be prepared with puff pastry already made industrially or make a homemade puff pastry, everything will depend on the time we have.
In our recipe we have made it with industrial puff pastry and it has been very tasty. To cook the cake, the ideal is to use a circular mold that we can unmold, they are very practical. A circular mold of about 22 centimeters or 24 centimeters would be ideal.
Almond cake recipe
Ingredients:
- A sheet of puff pastry.
- Ground and toasted almonds.
- Sliced almonds.
- 3 eggs.
- 150 grams of sugar.
- The grated skin of a small lemon.
- 3 tablespoons of milk.
- A pinch of ground cinnamon.
- 3 nails.
- Butter to spread the bottom and the walls of the mold.
- White sugar or icing sugar to decorate.
Elaboration:
- Before starting, leave the puff pastry to thaw at room temperature. Once defrosted, preheat the oven.
- We preheat with a temperature of 180ºC for about 15 minutes. We spread the walls and the bottom of the mold with a little butter. Place the puff pastry inside the mould.
- Reserve to prepare the almond paste. Toast the almonds a little and grind them well with the blender or blender.
- In a bowl or bowl, beat the eggs well, add the sugar, lemon zest, cinnamon, cloves, ground almonds and tablespoons of milk.
- Mix everything well and stir until creamy.
- We put the almond cream inside the mold and distribute it throughout the base of the mold. Put the mold in the preheated oven.
- Cook the cake for about 30 minutes at a temperature of 180ºC. We will watch while it cooks so that the top part does not burn too much.
- We will check if the dough is cooked by pricking it with a toothpick, skewer or with the tip of a knife, which should come out clean without any remains.
- Once the cake is cooked, remove it from the oven. Let it cool to room temperature before unmolding it.
When presenting it, we can decorate it with white sugar spread over it with a strainer or with icing sugar.
