Culinary Institute of America

Havana Cake

Preparation info
  • Makes

    6

    cakes ( 8 in each)
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
top 1000Baking & Pastry: Mastering the Art and Craft
Baking & Pastry

By Culinary Institute of America

Published 2015

  • About

Ingredients

Ingredient U.S. Metric
Nut Batter
Bread flour

Method

  1. Lightly butter the cake pans and line them with parchment circles.
  2. To prepare the nut batter, sift the flour into a bowl. Blend in the ground hazelnuts.
  3. Cream together the almond paste, sugar, butter, salt, and vanilla with the paddle attachment on medium speed, scraping down the bowl as needed, until the mixture is smooth and light in color, about 5