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Gâteau Nantais (Nantes Cake)

Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Vegetarian, Baked

Tags: easy, french, recipes for cake, recipes for dessert, recipes using almond, recipes using almond flour, recipes using butter, recipes using egg, recipes using granulated sugar, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings, vegetarian

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AG%C3%A2teau_Nantais_%28Nantes_Cake%29)

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Ingredients

Cake

125 g half-salted butter, softened
150 g white granulated sugar
100 g almond flour
3 eggs
40 g flour
2 tablespoons rum

Soak

2 tablespoons rum
2 tablespoons water

Glaze

2 tablespoons rum
50 g icing sugar

Directions

Cream the butter and sugar for 2–3 minutes by hand or using a mixer at low speed.
Add almond flour, and mix to combine.
In a large bowl, beat the eggs with a fork. Incorporate them into the butter and sugar mixture.
Add the flour and 2 tablespoons of rum.
Pour the batter into a buttered cake pan.
Bake for 45 minutes at gas mark 5 (150 °C).
As soon as you take the cake out of the oven, sprinkle the cake with mix of 2 tablespoons of rum and 2 tablespoons of water. Cool completely, then unmold.
When the cake is cold, make the icing by combining the icing sugar and rum. Add a few drops of water if necessary, stirring well between each addition of water, to make a thick but flowing glaze.
Pour the icing on the cake, and spread it well.

Notes

For this cake, it is best to glaze and serve the day after it is baked and soaked.