Almond cake

Almond cake

Ingredients for cake

• Butter 6 ounce
• Sugar 5 ounce
• Eggs 3
• Khoya ½ cup
• Golden syrup 2 tbsp
• Almonds essence ¼ tsp
• Flour 4 ounce
• Baking powder 1 ½ tsp
• Almonds ground 2 ounce
• Ingredients for base
• Almonds 50 gm whole slit from centre
• Almonds 100 gm coarsely ground
• Butter 2 ounce to grease the cake tin

Method

• Grease your 9 inch cake tin with 2 ounce butter very well on the sides and base.Sprinkle the almonds well to coat the sides and bottom, arrange the whole slit almonds on base.

Method for cake

• Beat butter and sugar well, add in 1 egg at a time, beat well add the second egg alternating with sieved flour, baking flour and almond mixture.Add in essence and Khoya. Lastly add the 3rd egg and beat well, fold in the remaining sieved flour, baking powder and almonds mixture.
• Pour In a tin mould and bake at 180 degree C for 40 minutes.Remove from the oven .Allow to cool and invert the cake.