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Cardamom flavoured almond cake

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
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings: 8 people
Course: Brunch, Snack
Cuisine: American, European
Calories: 252
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups ground almonds/almond meal
  • 2 eggs
  • ⅓ cup olive oil or butter
  • ⅓ cup honey or maple syrup/sugar
  • 1 tsp cardamom powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ¼ cup almonds and walnuts finely chopped
Optional garnish
  • powdered sugar

Equipment

  • Oven

Method
 

  1. In a bowl, mix together the dry ingredients, almond flour, cardamom powder, chopped nuts, baking powder and baking soda
  2. In another bowl, whisk together the eggs, olive oil, vanilla essence and honey until light and frothy
  3. Gently mix in the dry ingredients into the wet one, until fully incorporated. Transfer to a greased cake tin and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 25-30 minutes
  4. Remove, let it completely cool and then de-mould and cut in slices
  5. Serve this yummy, moist and spongy, cardamom flavoured almond cake with chai/tea/coffee. Enjoy!
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Notes

  • This cake is low on sweetness. If you'd like yours to be sweeter, increase the amount of honey/maple syrup/sugar while baking
  • If using sugar for the garnish, drizzle it over the cake once it is out of the oven and cools down
  • You could also use powdered cinnamon and nutmeg along with cardamom powder to flavour your cake. If you don't like these, only vanilla will also do
  • You could use other nuts like pistachios, cashews, pecans etc also
  • This almond tea cake will remain fresh up to a week. Cut it up in slices and store in an air tight container in the fridge, when it lasts for over two days
  • 1 cup = 250 millilitres
  • tbsp - tablespoon
  • tsp - teaspoon