{"id":5696,"date":"2019-08-01T12:05:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T11:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boxtedberries.com\/?p=5696"},"modified":"2019-08-01T12:05:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T11:05:28","slug":"raspberry-cardamom-and-almond-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boxtedberries.com\/raspberry-cardamom-and-almond-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry, cardamom and almond cake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Raspberry,<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Even the children were impressed by this unusual summer cake! The cardamom is distinctive without overwhelming the lovely summer flavours of raspberries and almonds.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I admit, I took a couple of shortcuts here. All hail to the master bakers who grind up their almonds and seed their own cardamom pods. I’m afraid I considered this way too much hassle, particularly after over-toasting the first batch of almonds and having to throw them away. So I used ground almonds and found it quite delicious all the same. I did pod and grind the cardamom seeds; I’ve listed the outcome in the ingredients here if you wish to cheat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like the idea of splitting the almond mixture early to create a crumb base – it simplifies the ingredients and prep greatly, and keeps it effortlessly gluten-free. The base of ours was a teensy bit flimsy but we’re having oven problems so the jury’s out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author Thomasina Miers<\/a> claims this only takes 5 mins prep. It took me about that just to line the tin! I found about 15 mins prep a more reasonable estimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ll definitely make this one again! What a delicious way to use raspberries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ingredients<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  • 125g butter, softened, plus more for greasing<\/li>
  • 350g ground almonds<\/li>
  • 225g soft brown sugar<\/li>
  • 1 tsp flaky sea salt<\/li>
  • 2 eggs<\/li>
  • 250g Greek-style yoghurt<\/li>
  • 1\/4 tsp ground cardamom OR 6 cardamom pods, seeded and the seeds ground with a pestle and mortar<\/li>
  • 1 tsp baking powder<\/li>
  • \u00be tsp rosewater<\/li>
  • 225g raspberries, fresh or frozen<\/li>
  • 25g flaked almonds<\/li>
  • 1 tbsp caster sugar<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Method<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
    1. Heat the oven to 180C\/350F\/gas 4. Butter a 23cm loose-bottom tin and line it with a double sheet of greaseproof paper. <\/li>
    2. Beat the butter until light and pale, then stir in the sugar, almonds and salt. Spread half this mixture over the bottom of the tin.<\/li>
    3. Lightly whisk the eggs and beat them into the remaining cake batter.<\/li>
    4. Mix the rosewater into the yoghurt, then add this into the cake batter with the cardamom, baking powder and rosewater. Mix well. <\/li>
    5. Pour this into the tin, then scatter the raspberries evenly over the batter, allowing them to sink in. <\/li>
    6. Sprinkle over the flaked almonds and caster sugar.<\/li>
    7. Bake for 60-70 minutes until an inserted skewer comes out clean. The mix will still be a little soft, but it will firm up as it cools.<\/li>
    8. Serve with creme fraiche or whipped cream.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Even the children were impressed by this unusual summer cake! The cardamom is distinctive without overwhelming the lovely summer flavours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[32,55,13],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/boxtedberries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/recipe-raspberry-cardamom-almond-cake-ft.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Ali","author_link":"https:\/\/boxtedberries.com\/author\/ali\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxtedberries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxtedberries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxtedberries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxtedberries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxtedberries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boxtedberries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxtedberries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxtedberries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxtedberries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxtedberries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}