Almond Cake With Fresh Fruit Garnish

A great torte type cake, use different fruits depending on the season.

Category: Desserts

Cuisine: American

Ready in 1 hour
by Blakeh

Ingredients

1 2/3 cups whole blanched almonds

1 cup sugar

4 large Eggs

1 3/4 sticks unsalted butter softened and cut into 8 pieces

pinch salt

1/4 cup apricot preserves

1 Tbs fresh lemon juice

1/4 cup seedless raspberry preserves

3 cups Fresh seasonal fruit See note


Directions

Heat oven to 375 ?. Butter an 11 inch pie plan. Fit bottom with circle of parchment or wax paper and butter paper. In a food processor, process almonds with sugar until chopped as fine as sugar. Ass eggs and process for 1 minute, stopping once to scrape bowl. Add butter and salt and process for 1 minute. Spread butter in prepared pan. Bake until cake is deeply browned - about 22 minutes. Transfer to wire rack and let cool completely before removing from pan. Melt apricot preserves in a small sauce pan. Press through strainer, then stir in lemon juice. To assemble, use a small flexible spatula to spread the raspberry preserves over the cake. Top with fruit, arranging in a decorative pattern. Drizzle apricot preserve over fruit, can be assembled up to 3 hours before serving and refrigerated.

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