Description

Brittle or Brickle describes a cake that you make with a topping that is hard and crunches easily in the mouth. Sounds strange but very tasty cake recipe. The Almonds provide the substance to this cake.

Prep 25 min |

Cooking 50 min |

Total 1 hr 05 min |

8in square cake pan

Ingredients

• 1/2 c — Blanched Almonds, sliced
• 1/3 c — Sugar
• 1/2 c — Unsalted Butter
• 1/4 c — Honey
• 1 tbsp — Milk
• 1/2 c — Unsalted Butter, softened
• 2/3 c — Sugar
• 2 — Eggs
• 1 tsp — Almond Extract
• 1/3 c — Milk
• 1 3/4 c — Flour
• 1/2 tsp — Salt
• 2 tsp — Baking Powder

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350F and grease the cake pan.
2. In a saucepan add the almonds, 1/2 cup butter, 1/3 cup sugar, honey and 1 tablespoon milk.
3. Cook on a medium heat until the sugar completely melts.
4. Bring to a boil and boil for 5 minutes then remove from heat and set aside.
5. Cream 1/2 cup butter and 2/3 cup sugar until light and fluffy.
6. Add eggs, almond extract and milk. Then mix and finally add 1 cup of flour, the salt and baking powder.
7. Beat until well blended.
8. Stir in the remaining 3/4 cup flour.
9. Spread batter in pan.
10. Pour almond mixture gently over batter and spread evenly.
11. Bake for approx 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean.

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Hints, Tips and Comments

Please add your tips and cake making tricks here, how did you improve the Brittle Almond Cake recipe any other additions to turn this into a truly great cake.

4 tips and comments so far for the “Brittle Almond Cake recipe”

• Manu
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  Careful that you choose the correct pan size. As with most cake recipes a cake that is shallower will cook quicker.

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• Sandy
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  If you cook the brickle for under 5 minutes you’ll get a tasty toffee mixture. This will sink into the batter whilst baking and tastes great. I’ll send a photo through soon.

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   Manu

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  Thanks for the recipe tip. Looking forward to seeing the cake photo. Will post with the recipe soon.

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   Sandy

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  Thanks Manu.

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