Almond Cake With Orange Marmalade
By: Meghna Danilin
Published: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 2:10pm

Ingredients




For the Cake:
Unsalted Butter - 250g
Icing Sugar - 250g
Eggs - 6
Ground Almonds - 250g
All purpose Flour - 60g
teaspoon Vanilla Essence - 1
Orange Marmalade to spread between the cake layers
For the Icing:
Heavy whipping cream - 250 ml
tablespoon Icing sugar - 2-3

Preparation

1 Pre-heat oven to 350 F. 2 Butter and flour two 9 inch round pans 3 Cream butter and sugar together for about a minute or until the mixture is pale yellow in color and very fluffy. 4 Scrape down the side of the bowl and add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. The batter may appear to curdle.Don't worry about that. 5 Now add vanilla extract and mix for about another 30 seconds and scrape down the sides again. 6 Spoon in the ground nuts and the flour to the mix. 7 Pour the mixture into the prepared pans and bake for about 30-40 min or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cakes comes out clean. 8 Allow to cool.  9 Whip the cream with the sugar until it's thick. 10 How to assemble: 11 Place the first cake and spread Orange Marmalade.You can go as thick or thin as you want. 12 Place the second cake and spread the whipped cream over the cake. 13 Spread it evenly on top of the cake and also on the side. 14 Decorate with orange slices

About


Make sure the butter and eggs are at room temperature.
This cake was inspired from a tart called bakewell tart I made about a year ago. The tart had this almond frangipane layer, which was so yummy, that I took the ingredients of that layer and tried as a cake