Almond cake with grapes
The recipe for this cake uses frangipane, a soft nut paste. Unlike marzipan, it is made with eggs and butter. It is used for filling cakes, pastries, rolls.
Ingredients
Servings 10-12- 100 g heavy cream (35%)
- 750 g seedless grapes
- butter - 50 g
- egg yolks - 3 pcs.
- lemon zest and juice
- milk - 250 ml
- 1 st. l. flour and starch
- 85 g each butter, sugar and ground almonds
- egg - 1 pc
- 1 st. l. lemon peel
- 1 tsp lemon zest and vanilla sugar
- flour - 200 g
- sugar - 100 g
- 140 g butter
- egg yolk - 1 pc.
Cooking
Step 1
For the dough, mix flour with butter. Add sugar, vanilla sugar, zest and a pinch of salt. Beat in the yolk and knead until the dough is smooth and elastic. Roll into a ball, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Step 2
For lemon cream, beat egg yolks with sugar, 1-2 minutes. Add flour and starch, mix. Boil milk with zest. Pour it into the yolk mixture. Pour the mixture into a saucepan, put on medium heat and, stirring constantly, warm up for 2 minutes. Remove from heat, add butter and lemon juice. Stir and let cool to room temperature. Then put in the refrigerator.
Step 3
For the frangipane, beat the butter, sugar, almonds, zest and egg in a blender until smooth.
Step 4
On a floured surface, roll out the dough to a 2mm thickness. Put it in a baking dish. Put in the refrigerator for another 1 hour. Preheat the oven to 180 C. Put 3/4 of the lemon cream on the dough, then lay the frangipane in a "grid". Bake for 30-40 minutes until the surface of the cake is golden brown. Let the cake cool.
Step 5
Whip the cream and mix it with the remaining lemon cream. Brush the surface of the cake.
Step 6
Put grapes. Lubricate the berries with a mixture of juice and powdered sugar.