Photo: David Holifield
Birthday Cake
11 ingredients
10 min + 60 min
Makes one 8-inch cake, or multiple smaller cakes.
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A perfect, simple birthday cake. One that effortlessly handled the car ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Flourless and made primarily with almond paste and eggs, it's baked until golden, then flooded with a simple, smudge-proof buttermilk glaze.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
852
Calories
28g
Protein
27g
Fat
121g
Carbs
Counts 8 of 9 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 8 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Almond | 1 almond (1.2g) | 7 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Bean | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- butter for greasing pan(s)
- 14 ounces / 1 1/2 cups / 2 tubes of almond paste
- 5 large eggs, whisked
- 1 3/4 ounces / 45 g / scant 1/4 cup organic cornstarch
- scant 1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
- 6 tablespoons / 1/3 cup / 80 ml unsalted butter, melted & cooled
- Buttermilk Glaze:
- scant 1 cup / 5 oz organic confectioners' sugar
- 2 tablespoons buttermilk
- the contents of 1/2 vanilla bean
- 3 tablespoons toasted almond slices
Directions
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