Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, italian orange almond cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook italian orange almond cake using 9 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Italian Orange Almond Cake:
- Get 1 box or can, almond paste (7-8 ounce quantity) They've recently changed the packaging.
- Get 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
- Prepare 1 cup sugar
- Take 2 tbsp Orange liquor - ie, Grand Marnier or Cointreau
- Make ready 1 grated zest of a whole orange
- Get 5 large eggs, room temperature
- Get 1/2 cup presifted flour, or cake flour
- Get 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 2 tbsp or more, confectioners sugar for dusting
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Steps to make Italian Orange Almond Cake:
- Preheat oven to 325° while preparing recipe. Make sure rack is in middle of oven.
- Generously butter and flour a 9" cake pan or a 9" spring form pan. Set aside. (Not on top of oven.)
- It is absolutely necessary that the butter and eggs are at room temperature. Don't heat butter to soften.
- Break up almond paste by placing it into a food processor, or using an electric mini chopster. Process until it is grainy like the texture of small course grains. Set aside.
- In a large bowl using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar together until fluffy for 3 minutes.
- Add orange liquor, orange zest (HINT: sprinkle the zest across, do not add in one lump) and almond paste. Beat until perfectly blended for 3 minutes.
- One by one add in eggs incorporating each separately until each egg is completely blended. Then beat for 3 minutes until mixture is very smooth and fluffy. HINT: break eggs into small glass bowl to make sure there are no egg shell fragments.
- Sprinkle on flour and baking powder mix by hand until blended then beat for 1 minute.
- Scrape batter into prepared pan and place in middle of rack.
- Bake for 55 minutes exactly. No more, no less.
- Here's the hard part! DO NOT OPEN OVEN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! RESIST ALL TEMPTATION TO CHECK ON CAKE. If you have a window, check that way. Towards the end of cook time you may think it's burning but it's not.
- Remove from oven to wire rack and cool for 15 minutes. Cake will have already slightly pulled away from sides and center could deflate a bit.
- After 15 minutes if using a spring form, remove outer ring. If using a cake pan, turn cake upside down onto a plate then invert back onto the wire rack.
- Allow the cake to cool completely. You can refrigerate the cake over night. DO NOT wrap in saran/plastic wrap. Lightly wrap in wax paper. Allow cake to come to room temperature before dusting with powdered sugar.
- Before dusting with powdered sugar consider using, or making, a stencil to create a beautiful design. It will make them think you got the cake from a bakery.
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