French Almond Cake *

Name: French Almond Cake * (Pain de Gênes)
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Makes 2 cakes, each serving 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: ⅔ cup (1¾ oz./50 g) sliced almonds; 7 tbsp (3½ oz./100 g) butter + more for the pans; 13¼ oz. (375 g) marzipan, roughly chopped; 6 eggs (1¼ cups/280 g); 1½ tbsp (15 g) AP flour; 1 tsp (5 ml) Grand Marnier; 1½ tbsp (15 g) potato starch; 1 tsp (5 ml) aged rum

Pain de Gênes

Preparation info

Makes 2 cakes, each serving
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

French Pastries and Desserts by Lenôtre

By Chefs at Lenôtre

Published 2021

About

Ingredients

7 tbsp (3½ oz./100 g) butter + more for the pans
⅔

Europe
France
Cake
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C/Gas Mark 6). Grease the pans with butter and line the bases with the rounds of parchment paper to prevent the cakes, which are fragile, from sticking. Press the sliced almonds around the sides of the pans, removing any that do no