Nantes Cake

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recipe by Marie-Caroline Regnault

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    1hr 10mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    6
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    501
based on 1 ratings

This rich yet simple cake is a specialty from the western French city of Nantes since the 18th century. It consists of an almond sponge soaked in a rum syrup and covered in rum-infused icing. Serve as a dessert or with coffee. User generated recipes have not been tested by Kenwood.

recipe updated Sep 6, 2022

Ingredients

  • Salted butter icon
    Salted butter
    125 g
  • Egg icon
    Egg
    3
  • Sugar icon
    Sugar
    100 g
  • All purpose flour icon
    All purpose flour
    40 g
  • Rum icon
    Rum
    100 ml
  • Ground almonds icon
    Ground almonds
    125 g
  • Icing sugar icon
    Icing sugar
    100 g

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Parchment paper
  • kCook icon Cooling rack
  • kCook icon kCook Multi
  • kCook icon Kcook bowl
  • kCook icon Round pan - 23cm (9")
  • kCook icon Medium bowl

Step preview

  1. Pre-heat oven - 180°C
  2. Fit whisk tool to kCook bowl
  3. Add salted butter and sugar to the kCook bowl
  4. Fit kCook bowl to kCook Multi
  5. Attach lid to kCook bowl with filler cap fitted
  6. Whisk with filler cap fitted - 5 min, speed 5
  7. Then add egg to the kCook bowl
  8. Mix with filler cap fitted - 5 min, speed 7
  9. Then add all purpose flour, rum and ground almonds to the kCook bowl
  10. Mix with filler cap fitted - 5 min, speed 5
  11. Grease and line a clean round pan with parchment paper
  12. Transfer batter to round pan
  13. Bake - 45 min, 180°C
  14. Turn out onto cooling rack
  15. Brush the cake with half of the remaining rum
  16. Add icing sugar and rum to a clean medium bowl
  17. Mix until combined
  18. Spread cake with icing
  19. Serve
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