Almond Cake with Lingonberry Sauce

A tender moist cake laced with almond paste and topped with lingonberry sauce and whipped cream.

Almond Cake with Lingonberry Sauce

Almond Cake – The “Pan”demonium Issue

As I mentioned in my Beet Salad post, Cooking is Art and Baking is Science. I love fresh baked goods, but often find them challenging. This is actually a very simple recipe, but I found myself with a recipe which called for an 8 inch round baking pan, which of course I didn’t have. A 7 inch pan and multiple 9 inch pans, but no 8 inch. Seriously, how annoying! Anyone else ever been there? So do you go with the smaller, the larger, or bite the bullet and buy a new one? I went with the smaller one. Wrong choice!

I actually learned many years ago that a pan which is 1″ different in size creates the need for adjusted baking time. The issue, is that the adjustment is guess work. Then if you guess wrong, it’s just no good. With cooking, you can tweak until that darn dish is on the table. With baking, no dice. If you messed it up, you throw it out and start again. So that’s what I did. Grrr.

It turns out the 9 inch pan was the right decision! I did find the need to cover the cake in the last 10-15 minutes of baking to avoid getting too brown on top. But no worries with a bit of browning, because it gets sprinkled with powdered sugar after its cooled. I did go the route of purchasing the lingonberry sauce, which I found at Lunds, my go-to store for all things a tad gourmet.

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Almond Cake with Lingonberry Sauce

Almond Cake is an easy, rich & moist cake made with almond paste and topped with lingonberry

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Course: Dessert

Keyword: almond, almond paste, lingonberry sauce

Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 50 minutes minutes

Cool Time: 1 hour hour

Total Time: 2 hours hours 10 minutes minutes

Servings: 10

Ingredients

• butter and flour to grease pan
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
• 8 ounces almond paste
• 3 eggs
• 1 tablespoon Triple Sec yup – that stuff you put in margaritas
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1/3 of a teaspoon baking powder isnt this annoying? who has a 1/3 teaspoon? Just do your best
• purchased lingonberry sauce
• powdered sugar to dust cake
• 1 cup freshly whipped and sweetened whipped cream

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Generously butter and flour a 9 inch round cake pan.
• Combine sugar, butter and almond paste in a medium mixing bowl and mix well.
• Beat in eggs, Triple Sec and almond extract
• Add flour and baking powder, beating until just mixed through, do not over beat.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake for 50 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Note – start checking how brown it’s getting at about 35 minutes and cover with foil for remaining bake time to avoid over browning.
• Cool. invert onto serving plate and dust with powdered sugar. Serve with lingonberry sauce and whipped cream.