Möndlukaka

Almond cake

This recipe comes exactly from an old Icelandic cookbook from 1858. However, I have adjusted the times a bit - the recipe comes from times before the invention of kitchen appliances such as the electric mixer or an oven with a precisely adjustable temperature.

Otherwise, you can see from the pictures that the cake comes from the "Life on the Construction Site" series - we're not quite finished yet, but we're already a big step further. But here everything was still very chaotic and improvised and generally - but at least I was finally able to bake again!


Ingredients

7 eggs
200 g white sugar
240 g ground almonds
1 ml bitter almond aroma
1/2 lemon peel


Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

Separate the eggs.

Mix the egg yolks with the sugar until foamy.

Then add the ground almonds, the bitter almond flavor and the grated lemon peel and stir in thoroughly.

Beat the egg white until stiff...

...and carefully fold it into the rest of the dough.

Pour the dough into a greased baking pan or one lined with baking paper (springform pan approx. 24 cm)...

...and let it bake in the preheated oven for about 50 minutes.

Let the cake stand in the switched off oven for about 15 minutes, then remove it from the oven, let it cool well and carefully remove it from the tin.

Bon appetit!

[Translated from here.]