Lemon & Almond Cake….Trial Cake Numero Uno

While out and about on our holiday in Perth we had a pit stop at the Sticky Beaks Cafe in Kings Park, While my babes had yummy cookies, and my Hubby had a Bacon and Avo sandwich, I tried the gluten free Almond and Lemon cake, and it was ridiculously yummy, so I have set out in journey to try and achieve something similar.

I had a good search on the net and even enlisted some friend to look for me too…In the end, as I do with a lot of recipes I changed it up a bit and came up with this.

What you need…

• 1 and 1/4 cups packed of Almond Meal
• 3/4 cup of packed Light Brown Sugar  
• 125 gram Softened Butter
• 1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
• zest of 1 Lemon
• 1/4 cup Lemon Juice
• 4 Eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Paste
• 1/2 teaspoon Salt
• Icing Sugar for dusting.

How you do it…

• Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix together
• Put all ingredients in to a food processor 
• Wizz it up for about 30 seconds or until the butter is well mixed through
• Pour out into a greased pan
• Bake until golden and you can get a clean skewer when testing.
• Let cool in the pan for at Least 10 mins
• then turn out onto a rack.
• Dust with icing sugar and serve.

Fresh out of the oven

Dry ingredients ready to be mixed

Everything wized together

This recipe was ok, but was a little 'eggy' and was not Lemony enough for my liking, it as a great completely GF cake though, and will be a fab option to serve at parties when a few of my GF friends are there.  But I will keep searching for the perfect one, maybe one with a little flour next time to help balance the eggs?????

Happy Baking