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Tarta de Santiago (Almond Cake)

Name: Tarta de Santiago (Almond Cake)
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 250 g ground almonds; 200 g sugar; 4 eggs; 60 g butter, melted; 1 lemon, zest; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 tsp almond extract (optional); Icing sugar, for the cross; Butter and a little flour for the tin

Galicia's pilgrim cake: a flourless almond tart perfumed with lemon and cinnamon, marked with the Cross of Santiago.

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1Preheat the oven to 180 °C; line a 22 cm tin.

2Whisk the eggs with the sugar until pale and thick, 3–4 minutes.

3Fold in the almonds, cinnamon, lemon zest, almond extract and melted butter.

4Pour into the tin; bake 35–40 minutes until deep gold and just set (a skewer with crumbs).

5Cool completely in the tin.

6Dust with icing sugar; place a St. James cross stencil on top and dust again to leave the dark cross.