The recipe for this Spanish pie, called tarta de almendra in Galicia, and gato d'ametia in Mallorca, is probably more than one hundred years old. Claudia Roden, author of an impressive study of Spanish cuisine, believes that the pie, like many old Spanish dishes, has Jewish roots.

After the invasion of the Berber tribes in the south of Spain in the 12-13th centuries, the Jews of Andalusia fled to the north of Spain, to Galicia, fleeing the attempts of the conquerors to convert them to Islam. So in the Galician city of A Coruña, a fairly large Jewish community arose.

As we now know, Galicia, which became a stronghold of the Spanish Christians in their campaign against the Moors, was not the most reliable refuge for refugees. In the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela, the relics of St. Jacob (Santiago in Spanish), which was considered a sign of heaven for organizing a reconquest. The Spaniards went into battle with the battle cry "For Santiago!"

As always, the first victims of the crusade against the Moors were the Jews. Now from the once flourishing Jewish quarter of A Coruña, only a few attractions remain, which are carefully guarded by the modern Spanish authorities, because they attract foreign tourists.

The recipes of the Galician Jews were destined for a longer and happier life. Many of them have integrated into Spanish cuisine so much that Claudia Roden was invited to the local television with the story that tarta comes from the Jewish Passover pie.

Ingredients:

• 350 g of peeled almonds;
• 3 eggs, yolks and whites separately;
• ¾ cups of sugar;
• zest of 1 lemon;
• zest of 1 orange;
• 2 drops of almond extract;
• powdered sugar for sprinkling.

1 cup - 240 ml

Grind the almonds in a blender or meat grinder.

Using a mixer, beat the egg yolks and sugar until creamy. Add zest, extract and almonds. Mix well. You will end up with a very thick mass.

Whisk the whites until firm peaks, add to the almond mixture and stir gently until smooth.

Grease a baking dish (20 cm in diameter) with butter and flour.

Lay out the dough, flatten it and bake in the oven at 180C for about 30-35 minutes, or until the middle of the cake is firm when pressed. Cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Airy almond cake with a porous structure has a great nutty flavor. The baking recipe came to us from sunny Spain. Making Spanish almond pie with a minimum of ingredients is quick and easy. For decoration, it is customary to sprinkle the baked goods with powdered sugar, repeating the outlines of the dagger.

To prepare aromatic pastries, we need:

• not roasted almonds - 300 g (1.5 cups);
• granulated sugar - 150 g (2/3 cup);
• chicken egg - 3 pieces;
• wheat flour - 20 g (1 tablespoon);
• ground cinnamon - 3 g (1/2 teaspoon);
• optional orange or lemon zest;
• vanilla for sprinkling.

Preparation time: 40-45 minutes.

Cooking time: 30-35 minutes.

Total cooking time: 1-1.5 hours.

Quantity: 1 nut cake.

How to make almond flour pie:

Fill the nuts with boiling water and leave for 7-10 minutes.

Advice. During this time, the skin will be saturated with water and will begin to lag behind the kernel. It does not make sense to leave the nuts in water longer, since the kernels themselves will begin to absorb the liquid.

We drain the water and carefully remove the soaked skin from all the kernels.

Dry the nuts in a dry skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally. We leave to cool.

Advice. The finished nuts have a pleasant creamy color.

Grind the cooled kernels into flour with a mixer or with a coffee grinder.

Advice. Nuts have an oily texture, so it is better to grind them in small portions, adding a little granulated sugar.

Mix nut and wheat flour in a separate container. Add cinnamon and, if desired, orange or lemon zest.

We combine eggs with sand.

Advice. In structure, the finished dough resembles biscuit, so the eggs should be chosen large.

Beat eggs and granulated sugar into a cool foam.

Advice. A pinch of salt can be added to the mixture for stable foaming.

Mix the loose ingredients with the beaten eggs. Mix thoroughly, breaking possible lumps.

Advice. The dough is obtained in consistency, like thick sour cream.

Pour the finished mixture into a baking dish.

We heat the oven to 180 degrees.

We bake a cake from nut flour for 35-40 minutes. A delicious crust should form. The match or toothpick must remain dry when piercing.

We serve pastries with tea, coffee.

Peach and Almond Cream Pie

An amazingly delicious pie with peaches and almond cream is made according to the recipe of Yulia Vysotskaya. It takes quite a while to prepare the ingredients, but the result is amazing.

The following foods are needed in almond peach pie:

• peaches - 1.5 kg (8-9 fruits);
• almond cookies - 500 g (8-10 pieces);
• lemon - 100 g (1 fruit);
• icing sugar - 50 g (1/4 cup);

for cream:

• almond kernels - 250 g (1 glass);
• butter - 200 g (1 pack);
• brown sugar - 150 g (2/3 cup);
• chicken eggs - 5 pieces;
• vanillin - 5 g (1 teaspoon);

for the test:

• wheat flour - 450 g (2 cups);
• butter - 250 g (1¼ pack);
• brown sugar - 50 g (1/4 cup);
• chicken egg - 1 piece;
• chicken egg yolk - 1 piece;
• vanillin - 5 g (1 teaspoon).

Preparation time: 1-1.5 hours.

Cooking time: 25-35 minutes.

Quantity: 1 nut cake.

How to make almond flour pie:

• Wash the lemon, rub the zest on a fine grater, squeeze the juice.
• Place the oil in the freezer for 10-15 minutes.
• Finely chop or grate chilled butter, pour in 1/4 cup granulated sugar, vanilla, zest, sifted flour.
• Grind the ingredients until a homogeneous crumb is obtained.
• Add the egg and yolk, add 80 ml of very cold water and mix.
• Knead the dough with your hands until a homogeneous plastic state. We wrap the finished mass in a film or bag, place it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
• Roll out the cooled part of the dough in a very thin layer.
• We spread the dough layer in a split form, forming the bottom and high sides.
• Cover the dough with parchment and add beans or peas.

Advice. Peas will allow you to keep their shape when baking.

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and place the mold in it for 5 minutes. Then pour in the peas, remove the paper, bake for 8-10 minutes.
• Grind 200 g of nut kernels with a blender until flour, cut the rest into pieces.
• To prepare the cream, grind one pack of softened butter with 150 g of sand, add chopped nuts, vanilla. Introduce 5 chicken eggs one at a time. Stir the mass until monotonous.
• Wash the peaches, then cut each fruit into 8 slices, remove the seeds, sprinkle with lemon juice.

Advice. Also, almond pie is prepared with plums or using apple slices.

• Break the cookies into small crumbs.
• Place and level half of the crushed cookies in a baked dish.
• Put the cream in an even layer, pour out the remaining crumb.
• Finish shaping the cake with a layer of chopped peaches.
• We bake the cake at 200 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
• Sprinkle the finished product with powder.

Ikea almond pie

In chain stores, for example, in Ikea, you can buy original pastries. Beautiful and delicious, this nut cake does not contain wheat flour, but has a delicious flavor.

Ingredients for the cake like from Ikea:

for cakes:

• almonds - 200 g (1 glass);
• chicken egg white - 4 pieces;

for cream:

• butter - 150 g (2/3 pack);
• brown sugar - 100 g (1/2 cup);
• cream with a fat content of 30% - 100 ml (1 glass);
• egg yolks - 4 pieces;
• vanillin - 3 g (1/2 teaspoon).

Powdered sugar for dusting.

Preparation time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 25-30 minutes.

Total cooking time: 1.5-2 hours.

Quantity: 1 almond cake.

A fragrant cake with a creamy layer bakes quickly and easily:

• Separate the yolks from the whites very carefully.
• Leave the butter warm to melt.
• Put granulated sugar, yolks and cream in a saucepan with a thick bottom.
• Stir the ingredients and bring to a boil over medium heat.

Advice. The mixture must be constantly stirred.

• After boiling, cook for a few minutes until thickened. We leave the base to cool.
• Using a blender, grind the almonds to a medium crumb state. We put 2 tablespoons in a small container.
• Add 1 tablespoon of granulated sugar to the rest of the mass and grind to a powdery state.
• Beat the cooled proteins with a mixer, gradually adding sand.

Advice. You can use regular sugar instead of brown sugar.

• We bring the mixture to a state of solid peaks.
• Add almond flour to the protein mass and with a spatula, from bottom to top and from the walls to the center, mix the ingredients.
• Draw a circle on the parchment and evenly distribute half of the dough on it. On the second sheet, draw a circle of the same diameter and lay out the second part.
• We bake the cakes in the oven at 200 degrees for 7-8 minutes.
• Turn the hot cakes over onto a cutting board or table and carefully remove the parchment. Leave to cool.
• Beat the softened butter with a mixer, adding the brewed yolk mass in parts.
• Beat the cream until fluffy, homogeneous.
• Put half of the fluffy cream on the cooled cake layer, carefully cover with the second cake layer and coat with the rest of the cream mass.
• Decorate the cake with chopped almonds and sprinkle with powder. The surface of the cake with almond petals will look spectacular. We leave the pastries to soak for several hours and serve.

Despite the fact that bitter almonds have a certain "bitterness", confectioners have been using it in their products for a long time. The main role of such a product is no longer the taste quality, but the transfer of the aroma, because it is in the bitter version that it is more intense.

Therefore, in general, such almonds give only their own note, and not a full-fledged taste. But sometimes, for a variety of taste sensations, it is put in large quantities and is the main ingredient.

Bitter Almond Pie

Ingredients:

• Granulated sugar - 125 grams (for filling).
• Granulated sugar - 125 grams (for dough).
• Ground almonds - 400 grams.
• Bitter almonds - 25 grams.
• Wheat flour - 125 grams.
• Powdered sugar - for dusting.
• Lemon zest - from one lemon.
• Chicken egg - 6 pieces (for filling).

The first step is to start preparing the dough. To do this, you need a deep and wide container in order to conveniently mix the necessary products. In a wide bowl, beat one egg and mix it with the following ingredients: a tablespoon of water, cinnamon, sugar. It is necessary to gradually add flour to the resulting mixture. Peel the bitter almonds and beat with a blender into small crumbs, add to the mass. The dough should be kneaded until it is homogeneous, then it will need to be rolled into a circle.

Next, you need to prepare a baking dish, for this it is enough to grease it with butter, after which you can put the previously prepared dough. Now you can start filling. This will also require a deep container for more convenient work. In it, you need to beat six eggs along with sugar, cinnamon, and the main ingredient of the pie - almonds. However, do not waste it all, you can leave some small part for decoration.

The dough is laid out in a baking dish, the filling is laid out on top. After completing all the above processes, the cake can be baked in a preheated oven to a temperature of 160 degrees, for about 30 minutes.

Belgian Pie with Bitter Almonds

Ingredients:

• Bitter almonds - 125 grams.
• Butter - 125 grams.
• Wheat flour - 75 grams.
• Granulated sugar - 125 grams.
• Vanilla sugar - 25 grams.
• Chicken egg - 3 pieces.

The first step is to tackle the bitter almonds before making the dough. To do this, we need a container in which it will be placed, pour boiling water. Almonds should be left in the water for about 10-15 minutes. After everything is ready, you need to take it out and put it on a baking sheet, then send it to dry. To do this, you need to prepare the oven, which should be at a temperature of 180 degrees. Bitter almonds are placed in it for about 15 minutes. After the nuts have cooled, they must be chopped into very small pieces using a kitchen knife.

Now you can start making the dough. The whites must be separated from the yolk and whipped into a dense foam. Butter is ground with sugar into a light fluffy mass. It needs to be whipped and almonds are gradually introduced. The whipped egg whites should be added gradually to the creamy mass and little by little flour should be added.

The dough is laid out in a pre-prepared baking dish, greased with vegetable oil. Then the cake is sent to the oven and baked at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes, or until golden brown.

Almond bitter cake with chocolate

Ingredients:

• Ground almonds (regular) - 300 grams.
• Bitter Almonds (Processed) - 20 grams (used for a richer scent)
• Granulated sugar - 120 grams (for filling).
• Granulated sugar - 120 grams (for dough).
• Wheat flour - 125 grams.
• Chicken egg - 1 piece (for dough).
• Chicken egg - 5 pieces (for filling).
• Powdered sugar - for dusting.
• Chocolate - 50 grams.
• Butter - for lubricating the mold.
• Ground cinnamon - 1 teaspoon.

First you need to take a convenient container for mixing products. In the selected container, you need to beat one egg and mix it together with cinnamon, sugar, a spoonful of water and flour. Now we add chocolate there, however, before that it must be melted and mixed until smooth.

The resulting dough must be placed in a previously prepared baking dish, which must be greased with butter.

The filling process begins by beating eggs along with sugar, cinnamon and plain ground almonds. Everything received is mixed in a deep container and laid out on the ready-made dough.

The cake must be baked at 180 degrees for 25 minutes. You can check the readiness of the cake with a skewer or a toothpick.

Carrot cake with almonds

Ingredients:

• Carrots - 2 pieces.
• Regular almonds - 300 grams.
• Bitter almonds - 20 grams (for smell).
• Granulated sugar - 200 grams.
• Chicken egg - 4 pieces.
• Wheat flour - 150 grams.
• Lemon zest - 3 tablespoons.
• Cinnamon - 1 pinch
• Cointreau - 1 tablespoon.
• Baking powder - 10 grams.
• Liquor - 1 tablespoon.
• Butter - to lubricate the mold.

First you need to start preparing the dough. The egg breaks and the white is separated from the yolk. Beat the yolk with half the sugar, add flour, baking powder, lemon zest and one pinch of cinnamon to the mass. Then liquor and bitter almonds are poured in for a more pronounced smell. The resulting mass must also be combined with carrots and ordinary almonds grated on a coarse grater.

The resulting dough is poured into a pre-prepared baking dish, which should be greased with butter. Next, the pie can be sent to the oven, preheated to a temperature of 180 degrees for 45-50 minutes.

Almond pie

Ingredients:

• Almonds (peeled) - 120 grams.
• Bitter almonds (processed) - 10 grams.
• Wheat flour - 350 grams.
• Chicken egg (large) - 2 pieces.
• Milk - 250 milliliters.
• Granulated sugar - 120 grams.
• Salt - 1 pinch
• Dry yeast - 1 teaspoon.
• Butter - 200 grams.
• Butter - 2 tablespoons (for the filling).

First, you need to pour 100 milliliters of milk into a container and heat it over low heat. Next, dilute the yeast in it. Add a teaspoon of sugar to the resulting liquid, as well as one spoonful of flour, mix everything thoroughly and leave it alone until a cap is formed.

Separate the eggs from the yolk and beat the yolks in a separate container with a whisk, pour the remaining milk into the resulting mass, also, preheat it, add the dough and melted, but slightly cooled down butter.

Next, the sifted flour is added along with salt and bitter processed almonds. The dough should be such that it does not stick to your hands. The prepared dough must be divided into four equal parts. After that, you can grind regular almonds and add sugar to it, and melt the remaining butter.

Each of the parts must be rolled into a circle, greased with oil and sprinkled with almonds, except for the last one, it must be left as it is. Leave the middle untouched and cut the pie into eight equal parts. Each part must be rolled with a rolling pin, this way you separate the parts from each other. An incision must be made in the middle of each of the segments. The lower part must be connected in such a way that it resembles a flower. The pie is placed in a pre-prepared form and baked at a temperature of 200 degrees for about 30-40 minutes, or until golden brown.