Twelfth Night Cake

Name: Twelfth Night Cake
Ingredients: beaten egg and milk, to glaze; beaten egg and milk, to glaze; 3 oz / 85 g unsalted butter, softened; 5 oz / 140 g ground almonds; 2 tsp orange flower water; 3 oz / 85 g caster sugar; 1 china bean or dried haricot bean; 10 oz / 280 g puff pastry; beaten egg and milk, to glaze; 1 china bean or dried haricot bean

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

About

Ingredients

5 oz / 140 g ground almonds
3 oz / 85

Dessert
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Mix the almonds, butter, sugar and orange flower water together. Roll out the pastry to two circles about 8–9 in / 20.5–23 cm in diameter. Place one circle on a baking sheet lined with greaseproof paper, a