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Almond & Cinnamon Cake

19 April 2015 by Eileen

One of my polytechnic Chinese friends from Mauritius has always told us how beautiful his country is. Since then, I have always wanted to visit Mauritius. It possesses a range of natural and man-made attractions, tropical climate just like Singapore and with clear warm sea waters and attractive beaches.

I was thrilled when I received the Winner of Masterchef 2012 Shelina Permalloo’s Sunshine on a Plate cookbook. This book is an introduction to the homely cooking of Mauritius. Looking through the book, I found that there are a few Chinese influences on Mauritius recipes which made me even more excited! Anyway, my hobby is mainly baking cakes and pastries! So I decided to bake an Almond & Cinnamon Cake. This is my first time baking a flourless and gluten free cake. I have no idea if it will taste like an egg sponge. Very much to my surprise, it was excellent! I would definitely bake it again as it requires minimal ingredients.

almond & cinnamon cake

Ingredients:

  • 5 eggs
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 200g unrefined golden caster sugar
  • 200g ground almonds
  • 15g ground cinnamon
  • 50g flaked almonds
  • Icing sugar and cinnamon sticks

Method:

  1. Whisk the egg whites until stiff.
  2. Whisk the egg yolks, vanilla extract and sugar until completely pale and aerated.
  3. Fold the ground almonds and ground cinnamon into the egg yolk mixture. Then fold in the egg whites.
  4. Pour the mixture into the cake tin and sprinkle with the flaked almonds.
  5. Bake for around 40 – 50 minutes at 180°c oven.
  6. Once baked, remove it and allow it to cool. Dust it with icing sugar and decorate with broken cinnamon stick. I omitted the cinnamon stick with mine.

This cake serves 8 to 10 people. It is very flavoursome and spongy too. We love it! This goes down well with Lychee wine! So excited when I saw this! Yum yum!

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Disclosure: We have received a Mauritius food pack for the purposes of writing this review, however, all thoughts and opinions remain our own. We have included an Amazon affiliate link to the product. If you click on this and buy, we may earn a small commission.

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Comments

  1. Kerry says

    18 July 2015 at 3:24 pm

    This looks like one of those plain looking cakes that is actually completely delicious! Thanks for entering #cakeclub!

  2. Kel says

    23 April 2015 at 8:39 pm

    That cake looks amazing, I love cinnamon – I can almost smell it now!

  3. sadhna grover says

    22 April 2015 at 7:22 pm

    I am surprised to see no flour in it, the cake may be very healthy and spongy because of almonds.

  4. Helen Costello says

    21 April 2015 at 10:54 am

    I’ve never heard of, never mind tried Lychee wine! This looks a great cake – a traditional go-to bake that would be great to have in your repertoire. Thanks once again for joining in with #Bakeoftheweek

  5. Tarana says

    21 April 2015 at 10:48 am

    I love the combination of apple and cinnamon. This looks like a great recipe!

  6. ♫ Alison M ♪ says

    20 April 2015 at 10:16 am

    You can get lychee wine! Who knew. Your cake looks really nice as well

  7. thenotsocreativecook says

    20 April 2015 at 9:29 am

    This sounds so good and so perfect for my tea right now. 😀 #recipeoftheweek

  8. Weronika Ozpolat says

    19 April 2015 at 10:40 pm

    This recipe looks interesting. I have never tried baking a flourless cake before but I do love almonds so I may give it a try.
    #bakeoftheweek

  9. Jenny @ modern family baking says

    19 April 2015 at 8:32 pm

    Thanks for joining in with #FamilyBakes and well done for baking with almonds, I always find gluten free baking tricky. I have tweeted and pinned and will round up at the end of the week.

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    […] I love how Mum in the Madhouse made these Oreo dirt desserts or chocolate mint puddings! Such an effective, clever idea to use Oreo as the soil. Next, anyone fancy these  banana bread brownies from Syncopated Mama? They look so delicious! Next, we have In the Playroom who used Belvita breakfast biscuit s to make these healthy looking yoghurt parfait. Lastly, these are two of my bake s: Milo Tiramisu and Almond and Cinnamon Cake . If you don’t like to use raw egg, then take a look at my Milo Tiramisu for the recipe or if you want a gluten free cake, try the Almond and Cinnamon Cake! […]

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