Method
Step 1:
Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan / gas mark 4). Grease and line the base of a 15cm round cake tin.
Step 2:
Beat the butter and sugar until light and creamy. Add the egg yolks one at a time and stir in with the almond extract. Beat well.
Step 3:
Sieve in the self-raising flour and ground almonds and mix gently. Beat the egg whites in a clean, grease-free bowl until very stiff and then fold into the mixture.
Step 4:
Bake for 50–60 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.
Ingredients
- 125g Butter (unsalted)
- 150g Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
- 3 Egg(s) (free range) (seperated)
- 1 tsp Almond extract
- 40g Self-raising white flour
- 75g Almonds (ground)
Nutritional Information
per 82g- 396cal Energy
- 27g Fat
- 12g of which Saturates
- 31g Carbohydrates
- 26g of which Sugars
- 7.1g Protein
- 0.17g Salt
Recipe Reviews
I love this recipe, it's definitely my 'go to' recipe for an almond cake (but double all the ingredienrs, its too nice to be small ;-) ). It's very versatile and robust enough to support adding other things without them sinking to the bottom of the mix. I've done one, adding roasted rhubarb chunks and chunks of Marzipan (added in layers to the batter as I put it in the cake tin) . I've got one cooking now, with the chunks of marzipan and orange zest, smells delightful 😊
Covered mine with melted dark chocolate- beautiful!! Cake itself was very moist and tasty. Will definitely be making another one or two!!! I test mine to see if cakes are cooked by listening to them - if they are silent they are cooked. Got the tip off one of the contestants who won one series of the Great British Bake Off, only a young lad too
I made this with 150 grams of caster sugar then increased the rest of the ingredients by 10 grams added teaspoon of baking powder and 4 eggs,made it in a 2lb loaf tin baked at 160 fan for about 50 minutes, let it cool and cut it in half spread raspberry jam in the middle and put two halves together drizzled with icing. Absolutely delicious tastes just like bakewell tart without the pastry
A 15cm cake tin? Is that right?
Incredible! This is a masterpiece. Thank you so much!!!
Just awesome
Ingredients
- 125g Butter (unsalted)
- 150g Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
- 3 Egg(s) (free range) (seperated)
- 1 tsp Almond extract
- 40g Self-raising white flour
- 75g Almonds (ground)
Nutritional Information
per 82g- 396cal Energy
- 27g Fat
- 12g of which Saturates
- 31g Carbohydrates
- 26g of which Sugars
- 7.1g Protein
- 0.17g Salt