A beautiful cake, deliciously flavored with Christmas spices!
Ingredients
Scale
For the cinnamon cake:
4 large eggs
1 cup (200g) sugar
1 cup (120g) all-purpose flour
1 cup (240g) butter, melted
1 ¾ cup (210g) almond flour
1 teaspoon yeast
4 Tablespoons (60 ml) honey
1 ½ Tablespoon cinnamon
1 pinch of salt
For the Orange glaze:
½ orange (juice)
2 Tablespoons (30g) icing sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Sliced almonds for decoration
Instructions
Preheat the oven at 350°F (180°C).
Separate the egg white from the yolk. Whisk yolks with sugar until you get a foamy consistency. Add the melted butter, almond flour, wheat flour, yeast, honey and cinnamon and stir together.
Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff. Add to the batter and stir.
Pour the batter in a mold and bake for 50 minutes at 350°F (180°C). Let cool on a rack.
Prepare the Orange glaze: whisk together the juice of 1/2 orange, the icing sugar and the cinnamon. Pour over the cooled cake. Decorate with sliced almonds.