Desserts à la Mariane

As my very first post, I want to share with you a lemon cake recipe.

If you like lemon, you’ll love this cake.

The cake is rich and creamy and a small piece will satisfy.

Here’s the recipe!

Cake Ingredients:

• 4 cups almond flour
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup egg whites
• juice of 3 lemons
• 1 cup honey
• 1 can (14oz / 398 mL) butter beans
• 2/3 cup cashew butter

Icing Ingredients:

• 1 3/4 cup cashew butter
• 1 cup honey
• juice of 1 lemon
• water

Cake Directions:

Begin by rinsing the butter beans. To so, pour butter beans into a strainer and rinse.

Next, put all ingredients (including the rinsed butter beans) into the bowl of your food processor. Process until smooth.

Grease two 8-inch cake pans with coconut butter. Separate the batter evenly between the two cake pans.

Bake in preheated 350 degree Fahrenheit oven for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean and top is lightly browned.

Remove from oven and let cool.

Icing Directions: 

Put all ingredients into your food processor.

Use the pulse function to begin mixing the ingredients together. Add a little bit of water to help the process along. Make sure not to add too much water as you want the icing to be thick, yet spreadable.

Keep adding water about 1 tbsp at a time until a thick and creamy icing is formed. Transfer icing to a bowl.

Assembly:

Remove the cooked cakes from the cake pans. Set the first cake on a cake plate. Ice the top of the cake and then set the second layer on top. Now using the rest of the icing, ice the top and sides of the cake.

Cool in fridge for 4-5 hours before serving.

Store leftovers in the fridge.

Enjoy!

Note: There’s a possibility that you will have a bit of extra icing (depending on how thick you like your cake icing to be). If you have extra, don’t toss it! Make it into something else. For example, you could mix in some oats and an egg and turn the leftovers into cookies (baking should only take 10-15 minutes)! Or forget the egg – just throw in some oats, mix, roll into balls, and freeze for a delicious treat.