Orange Almond Torte
The beauty of this recipe is that because you don’t separate eggs or soften butter or shell almonds it can be done in 5-6 mins.
1 cup unshelled almonds , 4 whole eggs 3/4 cup sugar ½ cup flour + 3 almond cookies ½ tsp salt 1tsp almond extract. Process almonds and cookies fine. Melt butter 10 onz. cool 5 mins. Beat eggs w/sugar salt almond extract add melted butter fold flour and almond cookie misture.
Butter 9” spring form pan. Preheat oven 375 F.
*Note: Lacking almond cookies use vanilla lacking any add 1/3 cup flour instead.
Cut 1 orange in long strip w/out pith boil rinds for 5 mins add 1 cup sugar and gently caramelize rinds 15 mins. Use orange strip to decorate top of torte add 2-3 T rum to syrop and pour over cake to glaze.
Love the fast track recipe A… looks so good!
oh, i wish i wasn’t allergic to almonds! this looks and sounds absolutely fabulous! {i thought i was already subscribed to your blog ~ i am now.} *hugs*