Almond cardamom sponge cake

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A delicately sweetened and fragrant almond flour cake to up your chai time game. This cake is not just gluten free, but refined sugar and butter free, as well

The next best thing to chai is probably it’s accompaniments. And if you are a regular, you must already know by now how much I love a slice of cake with my cuppa. So, here is my light as air, melt-in-the-mouth cardamom flavoured almond cake which is just perfect for tea times. Since, this almond cake isn’t overtly sweet it blends very well with a sip of my chai. However, if you like your cakes on the sweeter side, you could give this a sugar drizzle, once baked. In fact, that’s what a friend of mine did when she baked hers. And this is after all her almond cake recipe that I have adapted. While have flavoured this cake with cardamom powder, cinnamon and nutmeg also taste great. However, since I am not such a fan of cinnamon or nutmeg in my cakes, I have left it out.

Additionally, if you don’t like the flavour of cardamom, you could leave it out too. This cake is also flavoured with vanilla, so only that also tastes delicious. Besides being so yum, I have also kept my almond cake healthy. Yes, like most of my earlier cakes, even this one is butter and refined sugar free. I love it when I can keep recipes healthy and tasty, both, at the same time. Therefore, I have replaced butter in the recipe with olive oil and used honey as sweetener. So, there’s no stopping to the number of servings you would want to get of this cake. Additionally, not just chai or tea, a slice of this deliciousness is also yummy with coffee. Or even own it’s own, it tastes yum. 🙂

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Quick and easy tea cake

This cardamom flavoured almond cake is very easy and quick to put together. You will have a yummy, spongy cake ready for your tea time in 30 minutes. Moreover, you don’t even need to sift the almond flour/meal in this recipe, like you’d have to do when baking with regular flour. I have also added some chopped almonds and walnuts to my cake to up the wow factor. If you wish, you could also add some chopped pistachios, pecans, cashews etc. Or leave them out completely.

However, make sure to bake a big batch of this yummy tea time cake, because they will get over real soon once laid on the table. Another beauty of this cake is that, it stays fresh for up to a week. But, it won’t last that long in your kitchen since there are high chances of it getting over much earlier! So, make this one soon and enjoy it with your breakfast, for brunch and/or as a snack. 😉

If you are planning to try this gluten free, refined sugar free almond tea cake, I’d love to hear back from you. You could share your cake pictures with me over on Instagram. Also, you could drop me line of feedback in the comments section below.

Eat hearty!