Almond Ricotta Cake
Need a lacto ovo vegetarian dessert? Almond Ricotta Cake could be a super recipe to try. This recipe serves 16. One portion of this dish contains about 5g of protein, 6g of fat, and a total of 194 calories. For 51 cents per serving, this recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and mi
- Prep time
- 13 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 16 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
- 1.25 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 cup almonds
- 0.5 cup apricot jam
- 0.25 teaspoon baking powder
- 0.6666667 canola oil
- 1 egg
- 4 eggs
- 1.5 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons lemon zest
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 tablespoon orange liqueur
- 0.75 cup 2%% ricotta cheese
- 1.5 teaspoons rum
- 0.25 teaspoon salt
- 0.25 cup tablespoon sugar
- 1 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- 1
Cake:In a large mixing bowl beat the eggs, sugar, and oil on high speed until thick and pale (about 8 minutes).
- 2
Add the ricotta , lemon juice,zest, rum, vanilla and almond extract.
- 3
Mix until blended.In a separate bowl, sift together the ground almonds, flour, baking powder and salt.
- 4
Whisk into the ricotta mixture, in 3 additions.
- 5
Pour the batter into 10" springform pan which has been buttered and the bottom lined with parchment paper.
- 6
Bake in a preheated 350F oven for 45-50.The cake is done when a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.Topping:Increase your oven temperature to 375 F
- 7
Heat the milk and stir in 2 tablespoons of sugar.Toss in the almonds, making sure that the nuts are coated.In a separate bowl, blend together the 3/4 cup ricotta, egg, 1/4 cup sugar, zest and vanilla.
- 8
Spread the ricotta mixture topping over the baked cake and sprinkle with the almond slices.Return to the oven and continue baking for 15 minutes, until the almonds are a golden brown.
- 9
Remove from the oven and spread the glaze over the almonds.Allow the cake to cool before removing from the cake pan.Glaze:In the microwave or in a small pan heat the apricot jam until it starts to liquefy, it takes a minute or two.Stir to make sure it doesn't burn.Strain the jam if their is a large amount of pulp.
- 10
Brush gently on the baked cake.