Almond cake: several cooking recipes

Under the words "almond cake" people understand completely different desserts. For the French, these are multi-colored macaroons. For Italians, these are biscuits covered with glaze and almond petals. In Ukraine this cake is also called "Krakow". And in Russia, the older generation probably remembers the cookies, crispy from the outside and a bit viscous inside, which was prepared according to GOST in the Soviet Union and was sold everywhere. In this article, we will try to consider various recipes for almond cakes. Doing them is not so difficult. The main thing is to have at your disposal a powerful blender or a coffee grinder to pile nuts into flour.

Makaruny

It is said that the French almond cake was named after the sisters who invented his recipe at the end of the eighteenth century. Proteins from five eggs cool well. Almond flour (125 grams) is mixed with the same amount of powdered sugar. In another bowl, whisk the squirrels (at the average speed of the mixer ten minutes). One hundred and twenty-five grams of granulated sugar pour into a saucepan, pour cold water (35 milliliters) and put it on the fire. Constantly stirring, cook syrup. Let him pour out and carefully pour into squirrels. Pour the sweetened almond flour. We knead the dough. It should be the consistency of sour cream. We divide it into parts, each color is attached with the help of dry food dyes. On a parchment covered with a parchment, we squeeze out two centimeters of dough in circles of diameters. The oven should already be heated to 160 degrees. We bake for five minutes. Open the oven door and close again. So there will be an unnecessary steam. We repeat this procedure in another five minutes. After a quarter of an hour, we remove the baking tray. Half of the macaroons are glued together with some filling: jam, melted chocolate, coffee mass.

Italian almond cake: recipe

Six eggs are divided into yolks and squirrels. The first we rub with sugar (120 g) and a sachet of vanilla. In another container, mix one hundred thirty grams of melted almonds, 60 grams of ordinary flour and a teaspoon of powder for biscuits. Whisk the whipped into a steep foam. We introduce loose ingredients. Stir and add in yolks. Mix gently. The oven is heated to 175 degrees. Grease the baking tray with fat, spread the dough. We flatten the surface with a knife and bake for about forty minutes. Let's simmer on a dry frying pan 80 grams of almonds. Potolchom their large pieces. In three tablespoons of liqueur "Amaretto" and two orange juice pour two hundred grams of powdered sugar. The resulting glaze covers the cooled cake. We cut it into cakes. Sprinkle them with nuts.

White "Potatoes"

Who does not remember this cake from the times of our childhood? To make it super easy, you do not even need to kindle an oven. And instead of almonds you can use other, cheaper nuts. But they must first be heated in a dry frying pan to make them more friable and tasty. Then we blend seventy grams into flour, leaving a few nuts for decoration. Prunes and dates without pits (one hundred grams) mine. If they are too dry, steaming in boiling water. Cut into small pieces. Mix the dried fruits with almond or nut flour. We form balls with the size of a ping-pong ball. We roll out each walnut / almond cake in coconut shavings. Done! Is it simple, really?

Spanish almond cake recipe

Four eggs are beaten with one hundred and twenty grams of sugar until a lush white and resistant foam is formed. Add a pinch of lemon zest and cinnamon. Beat again. We need two hundred and fifty grams of almond flour. If there is not one, you can simply chop raw nuts in a coffee grinder. But in this case they need to mix with a small amount of sugar, so that fatty almonds do not stick to knives. In the egg mass, carefully enter the nut flour. Grease the baking tray with fat. Sprinkle a small amount of wheat flour. Spoon the dough. It should be noted that almond cake will grow in volume. Therefore, the blanks should be located far apart from each other. Sprinkle the cakes with almond petals. Bake for a quarter of an hour. Do not wait for the cooling, we shift to the dish.

Almond cake according to GOST

If you are a fan of the culinary traditions of the USSR, we will teach you how to make these delicious cookies. The recipe was indeed invented in the Soviet Union as a socialist response to bourgeois macaroons. From one hundred and twenty grams of raw almonds we make flour. Add 230 g of sugar. Stirring. Now add two egg whites. Not whipped - this is important. We mix it and only at this stage we work as a mixer. We add one more protein. Beat again. We put the pan with a mass on a small fire and, constantly using a spoon, bring it to body temperature. Constantly have to insert a finger, but what can you do. Remove the saucepan and add to the mass of thirty grams of wheat flour. The dough should be semi-liquid. We fill them with a cornet made of a file clipboard with a cut-off corner. We cover the baking tray with baking paper. Lubricate for fidelity with fat and sprinkle with flour. Extruding almond cake from the cornet - one by one. Bake in a heated to one hundred and ninety degrees oven for about fifteen minutes. We remove from the paper after complete cooling.