Spongy French Almond Cake

Yummy recipe to delight this Christmas & New year season

Ingredients

All purpose flour (Maida) - 1.5 cups
Powdered sugar               - 1.5 cups
Egg                                  - 5
Almonds                          -150 grams
Butter                              - 50 grams
Vanilla extract                  - 2 tea spoons
Baking powder                - 1 tea spoon
Nuts& Almonds               - for decoration

For Glazing (Optional)
Green tea bags                - 5
Honey                             - 3 table spoon

For Apple sauce
Apples - 2
Lemon juice - some.


1. Soak 150 grams of almonds in hot water and peel them

2. Let them dry for few minutes and grind them coarsely with 1 tablespoon of sugar

3. Take 1 cup of sugar and grind smoothly to make 1.5 cups of powdered sugar

4. Separate egg whites and yolks carefully and add the egg yolks to the powdered sugar

5. Blend them finely - Blend in a consistency that it comes out like a cream.

6. Add vanilla extract to this and mix well

7. Take 1.5 cups of Maida and mix 1 teaspoon of baking powder. Mix well.

8. Beat the egg whites separately until they become fluffy. Consistency is the whites should stand as strands.
10-15 minutes of beating with blender may be required

9. Now we have 4 portions -
Beaten egg yolks and powdered sugar mix
Beaten egg whites
Maida mix
Almond powder

Mix them together slowly and gently - Just do as folding - No need to mix them thoroughly.
Apply butter to the baking tray and spread this mixture gently.
Swift the tray so that the mixture spread evenly.

10. Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees.

11. Thinly slice the almonds and cut the nuts for topping

12. Apply on top of the cake mix - Make sure you spread widely in the corners.
As the cake bake, the nuts would move forwards.

13. Bake in 180 degree for 35 minutes - Poke in the center to check the perfect cooking of the cake.
There should not be any stickiness.

Glazing with Green tea : (optional steps)

14. Allow it to cool for 10 minutes and make some more pokes using tooth picks.

15.  Take 3 bags of Green tea and put it in the hot water

16. Remove the bags after 5 minutes and add 2 table spoons of honey

17. Using a spoon add the Green tea solution to the cake.

Goes well with Apple sauce

How to make Apple sauce:

1.Peel the skin and boil 2 apples.
2. Blend them after cooling.
3. Boil 1 cup of water and add some lemon juice into it.
4. Add the apple mixture and mix gently. Allow to boil and thicken.
5. Add some honey or dates syrup to this.

Photos will follow for this yummy sauce along with the cake :)