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Almond And Honey Cakes Recipe


   
Recipe Categories: Cake Recipes   |   Candy Recipes
Average Rating: (4 votes)
Yield: 8 servings
 
Ingredients
  250  g Sweet flan pastry  
    Butter; for the tart tin  
    Flour; for the tart tin  
  20  g Apricot jelly; for glazing  
  --------------FILLING-------------------  
  125  g Sugar  
  125  g Slivered almonds  
  90  g Unsalted butter  
  35  g Honey  
  2  tb Double cream  
  50  g Crystallised fruits  
    -- chopped  
    Kirsch  
 
Instructions
 
  (Units: 100 g = 3 1/2 oz; 1 dl = 3 1/2 fl oz = 2/5 cup; 180 oC = 350 oF; 200 oC = 400 oF; 230 oC = 450 oF; 250 oC = 475 oF; 2.5 cm = 1 inch)

 
  Preparation:

 
  1. Pre-heat the oven to 200 oC. Butter and flour a tart tin with a removable base 22 cm in diameter.

 
  2. Roll out the pastry to fit the tart tin. Line the tin with the pastry and prick the bottom all over with a fork. Bake it for 10 minutes at the bottom of the pre-heated oven. Leave the pastry shell in the tin.

 
  Cooking:

 
  3. Lightly brush a thin layer of apricot glaze over the bottom of the pastry shell.

 
  4. Put all the remaining ingredients for the filling into a saucepan and heat them gently, stirring to mix them well as they melt.

 
  5. Raise the oven to 210 oC. When the filling is melted, spread it in a thin layer on the glazed pastry shell.

 
  6. Cook it for about 15 minutes: it is ready when the filling begins to bubble.

 
  7. Leave the cake to cool in its tin, then take it out.

 
  Serving:

 
  Cut the cake into little triangles or rectangular pieces. Serve them with coffee, like 'petits fours'.

 
  From: Fredy Girardet, Cuisine spontanee, M Papermac, 1986, ISBN 0-333-40957-4

 
  Typed for you by Rene Gagnaux

 
   


 



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