ALMOND PASTE CAKE RECIPE PLUS

Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well between each one. Beat well until smooth and slightly lighter in colour. Mix the softened butter, sugar, grated almond paste, and lemon juice (or vinegar) in a bowl or stand mixer. Line with parchment paper and butter a 23 x 13 x 8cm (9 x 5 x 3 in) loaf tin.

ALMOND PASTE CAKE RECIPE PLUS

A thick, malleable blob, it mixed quite easily into the butter/sugar mixture.Īlmond sponge cake recipe from The Nordic Cook Book by Magnus NilssonĢ00g butter, softened, plus a little extra for the tinĢ00g almond paste, grated on the coarse side of a box graterĢ tbsps lemon juice (or 12% Ättika vinegar)ġ30g weak/soft flour (I used white spelt) In a bit of a hurry, I used it before it became completely solid - from thorough blending and/or setting in the fridge - which, incidentally, was a convenient way to avoid the additional step of grating the marzipan. I bought some blanched almond and quickly blended a batch of marzipan from the familiar recipe in Luisa Weiss’s Classic German Baking. There are a couple of large, increasingly hairy rats in the house, from whom no food is safe. Things got in the way, and when I reached in the pantry, only last week, for the (now probably just expired) almond paste, it had disappeared. I mentioned this cake in a recent Letter from Nettle & Quince, I had intended to make it with a packet of marzipan left over from Christmas baking. (Incidentally, after a week, it is as good, if not better.) I made it a week ago and there is a sliver left, because I hid it so well. If you don’t love marzipan, it tastes like the best almond cake. It is also very soft and completely moist and tastes exactly like marzipan, but only if you love marzipan. I usually just refer to it as “the cake”.’ Magnus Nilsson, of hallowed restaurant Fäviken, which closed in 2019, and author of The Nordic Cook Book, describes it as a ‘… very delicious, very dense, and very fantastic almond sponge cake. And … is it OK to post three cake recipes in a row? (And - who made up these rules…?!) It looks so plain but tastes insane.Īs if I needed another almond cake.

Almond paste cake recipe