Ingredients

• 1.5 cups - All-purpose Flour
• 1.2 cups - Sugar
• 1/2 cup - Butter (unsalted)
• 1/2 cup - Almond (blanched)
• 3 - Eggs
• 1/2 cup - Milk
• 1 tsp - Baking powder
• 1/2 tsp - Baking soda
• 1/2 tsp - Lemon/Orange peel
• 1 pinch - Salt
• 1/2 tsp - Vanilla extract

How to Make Almond Butter Cake

• Finely powder the sugar in a mixer and add butter and mix them well.
• To this mixture add 2 whole eggs and 1 egg yolk, retain the egg white.
• Beat them well until it becomes fluffy but not dry.
• Add vanilla extract to this.
• Put flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt in a large bowl.
• Use a sieve to remove lumps of all the dry ingredients.
• To this, add lemon/orange peel.
• Mix them well.
• Add dry ingredients to wet mixture slowly alternating with milk.
• Finally add some coarsely ground almonds to this and blend them well.
• Grease a round cake pan with butter and some flour, pour the mixture onto it.
• Bake the cake in a 350 degrees C pre-heated oven for about an hour.
• Brush the cake with egg white after half an hour.
• Arrange whole almond pieces in a regular manner.
• Insert a thin knife or a tooth pick and it should come out clean indicating the cake is done.