The familiar sounds from where you live, have you notice that? I never paid munch attention to that before, but now that I changed places It became part of my thoughts. It’s much quieter here and you can hear people and kids and *GASP* birds. Yes I can hear birds in the morning, first day I woke up with the birds singing I couldn’t believe my ears. I poked my husband and asked him if it was really birds…. Last time I heard birds was when I was living in Australia. There, every morning I would wake up with a very loud bird screaming, it was a bit annoying but so exotic it made me feel I was sleeping in a jungle or something, and every day at 6 o’clock at night, we had the cicada’s chorus at our doorstep it was beautiful. I really miss that place…specially this time of the year when I feel a bit blue (yes, I always feel a bit blue at Christmas time) all that Christmas songs everywhere, and people getting together with their families and celebrating, makes me very home sick, and when I feel homesick I feel for two places, Brazil and Australia. So today I woke up and went to Santa Monica Farmer’s Market, the day was sunny and glorious as usual. I saw these raspberries and thought it would be nice to bake something and make it festive. You know… Trying to cheer myself up with some sugar. If you like raspberry and you feel a bit bummed too, you should definitely try this one. It is crunchy and sweet I’m sure it’ll make you happy. It worked for me.
Almond and Raspberry Cake
Ingredients
- 5 oz ground almonds
- 5 oz butter, softened
- 5 oz caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- 9 oz raspberries
- 5 oz all purpose flour
- 1tsp baking powder
- 2tbsp flaked almonds
- Icing sugar, to serve
Pre-heat oven to 180C/ 360f/ gas 4 and grease a deep 9-½ inches loose-bottomed cake pan. I crushed my almonds with a rolling pin, then mix the butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla extract until well combined. Mix the flour and baking powder.
Spread half the mix over the cake pan and smooth over the top. Scatter the raspberries over, then dollop the remaining cake mixture on top and roughly spread – you might find this easier to do with your fingers. Scatter with flaked almonds and bake for 50 minutes or until golden. Cool, remove from the pan and dust with icing sugar to serve.
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Hiya, is it possible to make a deeper version of this cake?
This cake is stunning!
.-= Cherine´s last blog ..Pineapple upside down cake =-.
Thanks Erica. 😀
hello! that cake looks amazing!! i just found your blog and love it already
The cake looks beautiful! Love cakes with almonds, adds such a nice flavour and texture!
yum, this cake looks delicious and what a beautiful presentation!
What a delicious looking bread! I love raspberries. I love almonds! Yum! I will have to save this recipe.
An easy yet so superb cake this is, Anna!
Just lovely with some superb tea!
Thanks Jessie. 😉
Thanks Erica, your hubby will love this one. 😉
What a beautiful cake, Anna! My husband loves raspberries….this cake is perfect for him. Great pictures as usual.
Oh great to see you back in the kitchen again. Missed all the lovely pictures of yours… as well as You of coz! hehe…. I wish I could find some raspberries over here right now! Looks so scrumptious. yummm…
I always love this combination but never made them as we don’t have raspberries. I’ll just use some frozen one. We have some birds waking me up in the morning too. 😀
Just a lovely cake. Looks so moist!
beautiful scrumptious cake!
cant believe such beautiful cake came from such simple recipe!
it must be super flavorful!
great pictures too!
I always love raspberries…for its beautiful colour and also for it’s nutrition values. Love almonds too so this is just such a lovely recipe that I won’t be able to resist. It just looks so good to have with a cup of hot tea…yum. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful cake! I love the almond and raspberry combination!
Thanks Cheah, definitely…Are you on the neighborhood? 😉
That’s a lovely cake and with fresh raspberry too! Can I have a small piece to try?
Thanks guys for the lovely comments. 🙂
Beautiful photos! The cake looks delish!
Hmm, just beautiful and inviting.