Almond Kirsch Cake
Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins
Preparation Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 3 hrs
Ingredients
- Servings: 8
- 1 cup marzipan
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 6 eggs, room temperature
- 1 tablespoon kirsch
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup cake-and-pastry flour
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup blanched whole almond
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 4 egg whites
- 1 dash cream of tartar
- 1 1/2 cups whipping cream
- 1/2 cup icing sugar, sifted
- 1/4 cup kirsch
- 1 1/2 cups sweet cherries, pitted
Recipe
- 1 for cake, preheat oven to 325 °f.
- 2 grease and line a 10-inch cake pan with parchment paper. grease again and dust with flour, tapping out excess.
- 3 pulse marzipan, butter and sugar in a food processor until smooth.
- 4 add eggs, kirsch and vanilla and purée on high until smooth (scraping into the bottom of the bowl, if needed).
- 5 scrape batter into a bowl and stir in flour in two additions.
- 6 scrape into prepared pan and bake for 65 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
- 7 cool completely in the pan.
- 8 for meringue layer, reduce oven temperature to 250 °f and line bottom of a 10-inch spring form pan with parchment.
- 9 pulse 1/3 cup sugar and almonds in food processor until ground.
- 10 toss with cornstarch and set aside.
- 11 whip egg whites with cream of tartar until foamy, then add remaining 1/3 cup sugar and whip until a stiff peak forms.
- 12 quickly but gently fold in ground nuts and spread evenly into prepared pan.
- 13 bake for 1 ½ to 2 hours or until dry.
- 14 run a spatula around edge of pan to loosen meringue, cool completely.
- 15 for kirsch cream, whip cream to medium peaks, and whip in icing sugar and kirsch.
- 16 to assemble, slice marzipan cake in half.
- 17 spread 1 cup of kirsch cream over cake and sprinkle with ½ cup of cherries.
- 18 place meringue disk on top and spread with another cup of cream and ½ cup of cherries.
- 19 top with other half of marzipan cake and spread remaining cream, topped with cherries.
- 20 chill until ready to serve.
- 21 cake can be assembled up to 4 hours in advance.
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