Gluten and dairy free nut cake
1 hour 10 min
I make this cake for my friend who is intolerant to gluten. It is made with ground up nuts instead of flour and tastes just wonderful rich.
BärbelS
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Ingredients
Serves: 12
- 6 eggs
- 250g icing sugar
- 250g nuts, finely ground
- 2 tablespoons rum
- 2 tablespoons glutenfree breadcrumbs
- a dash French bitter almond extract
- ready made chocolate icing
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:50min ›
Ready in:1hr10min
- Preheat oven to 175 C / Gas 3-4.
- In a bowl beat 2 of the eggs with icing sugar until frothy.
- Separate the remaining eggs and add egg yolks together with nuts, rum, breadcrumbs and bitter almond oil to the sugar-egg mixture. Beat egg whites in another bowl until stiff and fold into the mixture.
- Line a loaf tin with greaseproof paper and pour in the mixture.
- Bake in the preheated oven ntil a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes.
- Let cake cool down, take out of the tin and cover with chocolate icing.
