Almond cake

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make almond cake? Prepare the products. Almonds can be lightly fried before cooking. Instead of sugar for cakes, you can take powdered sugar. If you have potato starch, take half the norm. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance so that it softens. Wash the eggs with a brush and dry them.

2. Step 2:

   

   Grind almonds to flour. I used a combine harvester, you can do it with a coffee grinder. It is not necessary to grind it to powder, let the flour be coarsely ground, so the nuts will feel better.

3. Step 3:

   

   Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. Do this very carefully so that not a drop of yolk gets into the protein, otherwise they may not whisk. The dishes in which the whites will be whipped should be clean and dry.

4. Step 4:

   

   Whisk the egg whites, gradually adding sugar, until stable peaks. It will take you about 10 minutes.

5. Step 5:

   

   Gently mix the whipped whites and almond flour. A silicone spatula is best suited for this purpose, it does not destroy the structures of proteins when mixed. The movements should be from the bottom up.

6. Step 6:

   

   On paper parchment, draw two circles of the desired diameter with a pencil. I circled the big plate. Turn the sheet over and put the dough on it, forming a cake according to the drawn pattern.

8. Step 7:

   

   Two cakes are obtained from the specified number of products.

9. Step 8:

   

   Bake the cakes at 175 degrees for about 20 minutes. Focus on your oven. It is better to put two cakes at once, bake them for the first 5-10 minutes, then swap the cakes, 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.

10. Step 9:

    

    Proceed to the preparation of the cream. Mix milk, sugar, starch and egg yolks in a ladle. Put the ladle on a small fire and boil its contents with constant stirring until thickened. The dishes should be with a thick bottom so that the mass does not burn. If you don't have one, then use a water bath. Completely cool the custard base.

11. Step 10:

    

    Beat the butter with a mixer, adding the custard base to it by spoonful, until a smooth fluffy cream.

12. Step 11:

    

    Smear each cake with cream, laying them on top of each other. Also smear the sides and top of the cake.

13. Step 12:

    

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