How To Make Toasted Almond Cake with Buttercream
Satisfy your sweet tooth with this toasted almond cake that’s layered with a rich mascarpone and cherry filling then smothered with a silky buttercream.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Cake:
- 2cupsalmond flour
- 3cupsall purpose flour,unbleached
- 1½tspkosher salt
- ¾tspbaking powder
- ¾tspbaking soda
- 1½cupssugar
- 1canalmond paste
- 24tbspunsalted butter
- 6large eggs
- 1cupwhole milk
- 1tbspamaretto liqueur
- 2tsplemon zest,finely grated
- 2tspvanilla extract
For Mascarpone and Amarena Cherry Filling:
- 1½cupsmascarpone
- 1cupheavy cream
- ¼cupsugar
- ½vanilla bean
- 2tbspkirsch,or grappa
- 1cupamarena cherries in syrup
- ¾cupcherry jam
For Buttercream Icing:
- 1cupsugar
- 4large egg whites
- 24tbspunsalted butter
- 4tspvanilla extract
Instructions
Cake:
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Adjust 2 oven racks to divide oven into thirds. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 3 9×2-inch round cake pans. Line bottoms with parchment paper; grease paper and dust pans with flour, tapping out excess.
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Spread almond flour on a rimmed baking sheet and bake for 8 to 10 minutes until toasted, stirring once. Let cool.
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In a large bowl, whisk together almond flour, all-purpose flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda; set aside. Combine sugar and almond paste in a food processor and blend until almond paste is finely ground, with the texture of fine sand.
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In a stand mixer with paddle attachment, combine almond paste mixture and butter. Beat on medium speed for about 2 minutes until light and fluffy, scraping bowl occasionally.
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Beat in eggs, one at a time, until well blended. With mixer on low speed, beat in milk, Amaretto, lemon zest, and vanilla until well blended.
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Beat in flour mixture, scraping bowl. Beat on medium speed for about 30 seconds until well blended.
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Divide batter among prepared pans and spread evenly. Stagger pans on 2 racks in oven so pans are not directly above one another.
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Bake 30 to 40 minutes, rotating pans halfway through, or until a toothpick inserted in center of cakes comes out clean. Let cool in pans for 10 minutes.
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Run a knife around sides of pans and turn cakes out onto wire racks. Remove parchment paper and flip again; cool completely.
Mascarpone and Amarena Cherry Filling:
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In a stand mixer with whisk attachment, combine mascarpone, heavy cream, sugar, vanilla bean seeds, and 1 tablespoon kirsch or grappa.
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With mixer on low speed at first and increasing to medium, beat just until firm peaks form; do not overbeat. Fold in cherries. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. In a bowl, stir together cherry jam and remaining kirsch or grappa.
Buttercream Icing:
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Combine sugar and ½ cup of water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring to dissolve sugar.
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Boil without stirring for about 5 minutes until syrup reaches 240 degrees F on a digital thermometer.
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Meanwhile, in a stand mixer with whisk attachment, beat egg whites on medium-high speed until soft peaks form.
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With mixer on medium speed, gradually pour in hot syrup in a thin stream; avoid pouring syrup on whisk. Increase speed to medium-high and beat for about 8 minutes until stiff peaks form and mixture is cool.
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Reduce speed to medium and add butter 1 tablespoon at a time, beating after each addition. Once all butter is added, beat on high speed for about 1 minute until buttercream is smooth and fluffy. Beat in vanilla.
To Assemble:
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Spread 1 side of 2 of the cake layers with jam and let stand 10 minutes, so cakes absorb some of jam. Place 1 cake layer, jam-side up on cake stand or plate. Spread with half of mascarpone filling.
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Top with second cake layer, jam-side up. Spread with remaining filling. Top with third cake layer, top-side up. Frost cake with about 1 cup buttercream to crumb coat cake; refrigerate for 1 hour.
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Frost cake with remaining buttercream.
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Serve immediately or refrigerate; if refrigerated, let stand at room temperature 1 hour before serving. Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 831.03kcal
- Fat: 56.96g
- Saturated Fat: 30.83g
- Trans Fat: 1.40g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 13.25g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.31g
- Carbohydrates: 69.70g
- Fiber: 2.46g
- Sugar: 45.91g
- Protein: 11.39g
- Cholesterol: 206.76mg
- Sodium: 393.77mg
- Calcium: 103.66mg
- Potassium: 272.67mg
- Iron: 1.83mg
- Vitamin A: 468.03µg
- Vitamin C: 2.34mg
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