The Santiago cake is a typical dessert of the Galicia and Asturias region in Spain. It is a cake of almonds made with sugar and eggs, sweet, soft and humid texture that is easily recognized by its typical decoration with the cross of Santiago on its surface. The recipe of this almond cake is quite simple and as in All dessert recipes with Thermomix, if you use your kitchen robot to prepare it, the elaboration will be much easier. In addition, Santiagos cake, not wearing any flour is a gluten -free recipe, ideal for celiacs. before.
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| Ingredients to make Santiagos cake with Thermomix: |
| 250 grams of raw almonds 250 grams of sugar (1¼ cups) 4 eggs 1 lemon (skin) |
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Ingredients to make Santiagos cake with Thermomix:
1. To make this great easy and fast Santiago cake, the first thing you should do is plug your Thermomix and gather all the ingredients at the table. Take advantage and see the oven at 180º C. with heat up and down.
2. With the very dry glass we will begin by spraying the sugar, for this program for 30 seconds with progressive speed 5-10. Reserve separately a little more than half a cubilete of this sugar for the final decoration of our Santiago cake.
3. Add the lemon skin to the glass, along with the rest of the sugar that we have not separated, and spray again programming for 10 more in speed 10.
4. Now incorporate the eggs and to join them to the sugar program Your Thermomix again for 10 seconds but this time at speed 4.
Trick: If you want a touch of extra flavor you can add a teaspoon of brandy.
5. The main ingredient of a good Santiago cake is the almonds and it is time to add them. Then, incorporate the entire almonds and crush everything for 10 seconds at speed 8. If you have preferred to use almond flour directly, it will be enough to mix for 5 seconds in speed 3.
6. Pour the mixture into a cake mold, previously greased with a little butter or oil, and kitchen in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes. The ingredients of this recipe are for a mold of 24 centimeters in diameter.
7. When you check that the cake is ready, remove from the oven and wait a few seconds to cool. Then place a template with the Cross of Santiago and sprinkle all the glasses that we had reserved to make the most classical decoration.
8. Santiagos cake with Thermomix is a dessert that you should not stop preparing, whether you are in Spain and not, because it is an exquisite almond candy that you will not regret. And if you like almonds and want more ideas to prepare with your Thermomix, you can check the almond butter recipe or sweet almond cream for desserts.
