Gluten-Free Almond Delight

The most delicious, most tender, very light, gluten free! The almond cake is baked without wheat flour, which will appeal to adherents of a gluten-free diet. The cakes are aromatic, with a bright nutty taste, and go well with lush custard butter cream. A delicious dessert, like from an IKEA restaurant!
cook time: 2h
Hazel Farrow
Gluten-Free Almond Delight

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

394
Calories
30g
Fat
25g
Carbs
8g
Protein

Ingredients (8 portions)

For the cakes:

Almond 250 g
Sugar 120 g
Egg whites 4 pc

For cream:

Milk 240 ml
Egg yolks 4 pc
Sugar 100 g
Corn starch 30 g
Butter 200 g

For decoration:

Almond petals 30 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make almond cake? Prepare your food. You can lightly toast the almonds before cooking. Instead of sugar for the cakes, you can use powdered sugar. If your starch is potato starch, take half the norm. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance to soften it. Wash the eggs with a brush and dry.

Step 2

Step 2
Grind almonds to flour. I used a food processor, you can do this with a coffee grinder. It is not necessary to grind it to powder; let the flour be coarsely ground, so the nuts will taste better.

Step 3

Step 3
Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. Do this very carefully so that not a drop of yolk gets into the whites, otherwise they may not beat. The container in which the egg whites will be beaten must be clean and dry.

Step 4

Step 4
Beat the egg whites, gradually adding sugar, until stiff peaks form. It will take you about 10 minutes.

Step 5

Step 5
Gently fold in the beaten egg whites and almond flour. A silicone spatula is best suited for this purpose; it does not destroy the protein structure when mixing. Movements should be from bottom to top.

Step 6

Step 6
On parchment paper, draw two circles of the desired diameter with a pencil. I circled the large plate. Turn the sheet over and place the dough on it, forming the cake according to the drawn template.

Step 7

Step 7
From the specified quantity of products two cakes are obtained.

Step 8

Step 8
Bake the cakes at 175 degrees for about 20 minutes. Focus on your oven. It’s better to place two cake layers at once, bake them for the first 5-10 minutes, then swap the cake layers and bake them for another 5-10 minutes. The finished cake should be slightly browned. Cool the cakes completely and only then carefully remove the paper from them.

Step 9

Step 9
Start preparing the cream. Mix milk, sugar, starch and egg yolks in a ladle. Place the ladle on low heat and cook its contents with constant stirring until thickened. The dishes should have a thick bottom so that the mixture does not burn. If you donʼt have one, use a water bath. Cool the custard base completely.

Step 10

Step 10
Beat the butter with a mixer, adding the custard base one spoon at a time until it becomes a smooth, fluffy cream.

Step 11

Step 11
Spread the cream over each cake layer, placing them on top of each other. Also coat the sides and top of the cake.

Step 12

Step 12
Decorate the top and sides of the cake with almond petals. Cool the finished cake in the refrigerator for three hours.

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