{"id":580,"date":"2015-02-15T19:02:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T19:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/?p=580"},"modified":"2015-02-20T16:45:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T16:45:04","slug":"torta-de-cielo-almond-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/torta-de-cielo-almond-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Torta de Cielo (Almond Cake)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first made this cake for our daughter&#8217;s birthday.\u00a0 It only uses 9 tbls of flour and I substituted a gluten free flour blend and it worked perfectly.\u00a0 You can use regular all purpose flour if you like.\u00a0 It is a small cake but makes up for its size with a lot of flavour and a richness.\u00a0 It does not require any frosting but if you want to dress up the plate use some fresh berries or fruit along side.\u00a0 This cake has since been requested by most of the family members and since I first came across this cake in a Mexican cookbook everyone thinks we should have it with anything Mexican&#8230;.tacos, chilaquiles, enchiladas, tamales or burritos.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ingredients\"><h3>Ingredients<\/h3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 cup raw almonds with skins<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/3 cup ground almonds<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 cup butter<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 cup plus 2 tbls sugar<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">3 eggs, lightly beaten<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 teas almond extract<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 teas vanilla extract<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">9 tbls flour<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">pinch of salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"shortcode-directions instructions\"><h3>Directions<\/h3><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Lightly butter and 8&#8243; cake pan.<\/li>\n<li>Line with wax\/parchment paper.<\/li>\n<li>Put almonds in food processor to form a crumbly mixture.<\/li>\n<li>Beat together butter and sugar in a bowl until smooth.<\/li>\n<li>Add eggs, almonds, ground almonds and vanilla and almond extract.<\/li>\n<li>Stir in flour and salt and mix briefly until flour is just incorporated.<\/li>\n<li>Spoon into pan and bake 350F for 40-50 min.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Serving Suggestions:<\/strong><br \/>\nServe sprinkled with confectioners sugar and toasted sliced almonds.\u00a0 Dress up the plate with fresh berries or fruit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first made this cake for our daughter&#8217;s birthday.\u00a0 It only uses 9 tbls of flour and I substituted a gluten free flour blend and it worked perfectly.\u00a0 You can use regular all purpose flour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,69,90,88,274],"tags":[254,268,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}