Tosca Cake Food

TOSCAKAKA / TOSCA CAKE (SWEDISH ALMOND CAKE)

Steps:

• For Cake:.
• Beat eggs, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy.
• Sift 1 cup plus 1 tablespoons of flour with baking powder and salt.
• Stir in flour mixture alternately with cream, stir until well blended.
• Add melted butter or margarine, blend until smooth.
• Butter a pie plate and sprinkle with fine, dry breadcrumbs or flour; coat well. Spoon batter into 9" pie plate. Bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes or until middle of cake is firm.
• For Almond Sugar Topping:.
• Combine almonds with remaining ingredients in a small saucepan. Heat, stirring until mixture begins to bubble.
• Remove from heat and stir briskly a few times.
• Spread top of cake very gently with Topping.
• Turn up heat to 375 degrees, return cake to oven and bake 5-10 minutes longer, with a cookie sheet under the pan to prevent the bottom of cake from getting overdone. bake cake until topping is brown and bubbly.

TOSCA CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200°C.
• Either butter a 22cm springform tin or line with baking paper.
• Beat eggs until frothy then add the sugar and beat until thick and a pale yellow.
• Shift flour, baking powder and salt, then add to egg mixture and fold together.
• Add the milk and melted butter. Pour into the prepared cake tin making sure you flatten the top, bake for 20 minutes.
• While the cake is baking make the topping by placing all the ingredients into a pot and bring to the boil.
• Remove the cake from the oven - it won't be completely cooked - and spread over the topping.
• Bake a further 10-15 mins or until the top is nice a browned.
• The cake won't rise a lot but be rather flat.

SWEDISH TOSCA APPLES OR PEARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F Place the apples, round side up, in a well-buttered ovenproof dish.
• Place the butter, sugar, flour, and cream in a pan, heating gently until blended.
• Meanwhile, carefully toast the almonds on a cookie sheet in the oven. --Watch these carefully!
• Pour the melted butter mixture over the apples, sprinkle with the almonds, and bake for 20-25 minutes, until the apples are tender. Serve immediately, with cream. .