You wouldn’t want to miss out on this easy flourless pecan cake recipe. You can serve it at any type of occasion. In fact, you can serve this even without an occasion! You can serve it when you just want to make your afternoons extra special! This is actually perfect not just for a birthday party, but for an afternoon tea party or just a simple gathering. I served this once to my friends and I am telling you, the pie glass was empty in minutes.
They loved it and they felt less guilty about eating it because it’s flourless!
Ingredients
For the cake batter:
200 g Domino sugar
10 Eggland’s Best eggs
380 g grounded Fisher pecans or walnuts
1 teaspoon instant coffee
2 tablespoons McCormick vanilla sugar
1 tablespoon Progresso bread crumbs
2 tablespoons Hershey’s cocoa
For the icing:
5 tablespoons of Gold Medal flour
1 cup of Borden milk (250ml )
3 teaspoons instant coffee
1 cup of Land O Lakes butter (227 g)
1 cup of Domino sugar (200 g)
50 ml vodka or brandy or cognac (you can leave this out or use less)
Additional:
Great Value Sour jelly (cranberry jelly) to smear the middle layer (around 3 tablespoons)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 165°C – 330°F
Prepare part of the icing:
Combine the milk and flour in a pot and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens. It will be very thick in the end. Cool off the mixture down to room temperature.
Prepare very strong coffee using the 3 teaspoons of instant coffee and a little of water.
Cool off completely.
Take out 227 g butter (1 cup) from the fridge to bring it to room temperature.
Prepare the cake:
Whip the powdered sugar with 8 egg yolks and 2 whole eggs;
Add the grounded nuts.
Add the instant coffee and vanilla sugar.
Add 1 tablespoon of bread crumbs and cocoa.
Whip the egg whites from the 8 eggs and add to the nut batter. Mix gently with a spatula.
Pour the cake to a buttered and floured round form (I use 26 cm – 10.5 inch).
Bake at 330°F (165°C) for 1 hour.
Check with a long toothpick if the cake is ready before taking it out.
Cool off the cake.
Prepare the icing:
Add very SLOWLY the cooled off coffee to the flour-milk mixture. Mix well. Make sure to add 1 teaspoon at a time. Try the mixture before adding more to get the coffee taste you want. Don’t add all of it.
Add the alcohol, but also try the mixture to make sure that it is not too much. Many people like less alcohol in their icing, so add to your taste.
Whip the butter with sugar. Make sure that the butter and sugar is whipped really well.
Add the coffee-milk mixture to it and mix shortly (45 seconds) on high, so that the icing will be smooth. It is important that the ingredients have the same temperature, otherwise the icing can separate. If it happens, you can still use it and save your cake by sprinkling on top and the sides grounded nuts. The icing will taste the same.
Set up the cake:
Make strong tea, add 1 tablespoon of sugar. If you like, you can add some alcohol (same as in the icing).
Cut the cooled off cake into two round layers.
Using a teaspoon make the cake a “little wet” with the tea. Transfer the icing into a pastry bag and with a thin round tip trace a circle on the edge of the bottom layer. Smear the cranberry jelly inside the circle and then spread the cream onto it. Place the second layer on top, make it wet with the tea, and ice with rest of the icing. If the top has a peak, you can cut it off; you can also switch the top with the bottom, since the bottom will always be flat.
Decorate with nuts.
Keep in the fridge until serving.
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Quick Tip: You can freeze this cake if you have leftovers.