Delicious lemon cake with a hint of thyme and almond flour and almond flakes on top
Course Cake and cookies
Cuisine Dutch
Keyword lemon, thyme
Prep Time 15 minutesmins
Cook Time 50 minutesmins
Total Time 1 hourhr5 minutesmins
Servings 12people
Calories 271
Equipment
cake tin 25 cm
Ingredients
2lemons
125gramalmond flour
150gramself rising flour
150grambutterat room temperature
150gramsugar
1lemon
2eggs
3tbspfresh thyme leaveschopped
2tbspalmond shaving
icing sugar
caketin 25 x 11 cm
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 180˚ C (350˚F). Clean the lemons under warm running water and grate the zest. Add all ingredients except the almond shavings and the icing sugar in a bowl and whisk until a smooth thick batter.
Pour the batter into the caketin (it will be half full) and smooth with a wet spatula and sprinkle the almonds on top. Bake the cake in the oven for about 45-50 minutes until golden and done.