Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'almond cake'
Almond Cake in a Food Processor
You know the author photos you see on the back flap of cookbooks? Imagine if one of them started talking to you. That's how I felt last week when I announced on Twitter that I was making Amanda Hesser's almond cake (one of my all-time favorite desserts, recipe here) and Amanda Hesser herself, who's a prolific Twitterer, Tweeted back: "I have a new way of doing the almond cake: mix butter, sugar, almond paste, eggs, sour cream & extract in a food processor."...
High School Gastronomical (Battle Almond Cake)
An enthusiastic high school senior named Jonny G. wrote me recently to say that he was going to make my beloved Almond Cake (well not mine, Amanda Hesser's) for a class trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Only one of his classmates, Tally, planned to make an almond cake of her own with the claim that hers would be better. I told him to take a picture and to write up the proceedings and that I'd post the results on the site. Here's some happy high school Monday morning entertainment....
