Italian Almond Cake with raisins
Italian Almond Cake with raisins. Book: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24407 Quantities and instructions were newly written for home cooking; this is not a historical transcription. Not…
- 120 g ground sweet almonds
- 80 g wheat flour
- 3 piece eggs
- 90 g sugar
- 40 g halal-certified butter
- 60 ml halal-certified milk
- 10 g lemon zest
- 30 g raisins
- Rinse raisins and drain. Heat oven to 170 °C; line a 20 cm cake tin.
- Beat eggs with sugar for 4 minutes until thick. Melt any listed butter and let it cool to lukewarm. Mix in the other main ingredients, then fold in the variation ingredient.
- Pour into the tin and bake 30–40 minutes until firm and a skewer comes out clean; the centre should reach at least 71 °C.
- Cool for 20 additional minutes, then cut into four portions. Cool leftovers rapidly in shallow containers and refrigerate at 4 °C within 2 hours.
- Photo: Shoodho — Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Almond_Cake.jpg Licence: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en Resized and converted to JPEG; no crop. Almond cake illustration; icing, almond topping and added fruit differ from this formula.
Original modern halal adaptation and ingredient variation inspired by Maria Gentile, The Italian Cook Book, dish family: Italian Almond Cake.