Shall I bring dessert?...almond cake

Tonight I'm heading over to a friend's house for a birthday BBQ. A casual, BYO grog affair, it will be good to catch up with people I haven't seen in awhile. It's also a terrific excuse to whip out my cooking apron, crank up the oven and pull out my favourite cake book for inspiration.

Did I mention I love baking? I say you can never go too wrong with butter, sugar and flour!

We have about a kilo of almond meal at home (a result of miscalculation on an earlier biscuit recipe) so I though I'd make this simple almond cake. Unfortunately I can't tell you what the final result tastes like til after the party but I can tell you the raw mixture was delicious!

Here's the recipe if you're interested. It's adapted from the Cake Bible.

Almond Cake

150g butter
1 cup caster sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 1/2 cups plain flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
70g almond meal
3/4 cup milk
icing sugar, for dusting

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius. Lightly grease and flour a 20 cm cake tin.

Cream butter and sugar, then beat in eggs and almond extract. Add sifted flour and baking powder and almond meal alternatively with milk. Mix well.

Pour into cake tin and bake for 50 minutes. Leave in tin for 10 minutes before removing. Dust with icing sugar.

Edit: the final product tasted delicious too! Moist and very almondy :-)