FLOURLESS COCONUT AND ALMOND CAKE

Flourless Coconut and Almond Cake image

Deliciously moist flourless cake. Traditional cakes have their place, but this is a sweet alternative. Is delightful when served with vanilla ice cream.

Provided by sarsnz

Categories Desserts Nut Dessert Recipes Almond Dessert Recipes

Time 1h

Yield 12

Number Of Ingredients 8

Ingredients

1 ½ cups almond meal
¾ cup coconut flakes
1 ¼ cups caster (superfine) sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
⅞ cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
2 tablespoons almond slices
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar, or to taste

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch springform pan.
Mix almond meal, caster sugar, and coconut in a large bowl.
Beat eggs, cooled melted butter, and vanilla together with a whisk until smooth; pour into bowl with almond meal mixture and fold until smooth and batter-like. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle almond slices over the top of the batter.
Bake in preheated oven until the top of the cake is firm, about 40 minutes. Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes before removing to a baking rack to cool completely. Dust top of cooled cake with confectioners' sugar.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 331.9 calories, Carbohydrate 27.9 g, Cholesterol 97.6 mg, Fat 21.9 g, Fiber 1 g, Protein 8.4 g, SaturatedFat 12.6 g, Sodium 28.6 mg, Sugar 22.7 g