Coffee Almond Crunch Cake Gordon Ramsey

By jan_ice

Ingredients

• Coffee and Almond Crunch Cake
• Cake
• ¾ Cup (1 ½ sticks ) unsalted butter
• ¾ Cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
• 3 extra large eggs lightly beaten
• ½ tsp almond extract
• 1 heaped Cup ground almonds
• ¼ Cup cooled espresso
• 2/3 Cup SR Flour
• ½ tsp baking powder
• confectioners sugar for dusting
• Crunch Topping
• ½ Cup all purpose flour
• ¼ Cup light brown sugar
• 4 Tablespoons ( ½ stick ) cold unsalted butter diced

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 300 deg F: Butter/line sides of cake tin with removable base: parchment on base.

For crunch topping: mix flour and sugar tog. Rub in butter until like coarse crumbs. Place in fridge.

Cream Butter and sugar till light and fluffy: Beat in eggs little at a time till fully incorp.

Add almond essence/mix well:

Fold in ground almonds:

then add half the espresso:

Stir in the flour and baking powder tog and fold this through the wet mixture:

Finally fold in the remaining espresso

Spread the mix into the cake tin and level with spatula.

Place in oven and cook for 30 mins:

Sprinkle crunch topping over the top evenly.

Cook for another 30 mins or until golden brown and a wooden skewer comes out clean. May take a little longer than 30 mins.

Remove and cool before removing cake sides.

Dust with confectioners sugar