Le gâteau de Suzanne

Suzanne’s Cake

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Preparation info
  • Serve

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      1 hr

Appears in
French Brasserie Cookbook

By Daniel Galmiche

Published 2011

  • About

Suzanne was actually my great aunt, but I think her cakes alone were enough to earn her the title of Grand-Mère! she always used to say it was the quality of the farm eggs that made them taste so good – the yolks were a deep orange colour – and they gave her cake such lightness and flavour. My father loved going to Grand-Mère’s. The first thing he did when he got there was look for the cakes. Grand-Mère liked to hide them so she could tease us that she hadn’t made any, but we always