PORTUGUESE ALMOND CAKE

yields 1 cake

 

Ingredients

2 ½ cups almonds, skinless and ground

2 cups sugar

18 yolks

2 eggs

4/5 cup water

Salt

Sugar to sprinkle cake

Butter to grease and flour to dust tin

 

1 Preheat oven to 300 ºF. Grease and dust a 10-inch springform cake tin.

 

2 Boil together sugar and water until the ‘pearl stage’ is reached (thick thread runs from spoon and a drop forms at the bottom). Turn heat off and add almonds and salt.

 

3 Let it cool and then blend in yolks and eggs previously sieved.

 

4 Put the mix over the heat and keep stirring till it thickens. Transfer to cake tin. Bake for 35 min.

 

5 Serve at room temperature sprinkled with sugar.