Tony Bilson

Gateau Basque

Preparation info
  • Serve

    six

    people
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Tony Bilson's Recipe Book
Tony Bilson's Recipe Book

By Tony Bilson

Published 1987

  • About

This is an adaptation of two recipes — one traditional, collected I remember not when, and the other a version given in Gaston Lenôtre’s fine book, Desserts and Pastries.

Ingredients

  • 200 g self-raising flour
  • 50 g cornflour
  • 100 g

Method

Mix the flour, cornflour and ground almonds together and set aside to rest. Beat the eggs and sugar until they become light yellow. Fold in the dry ingredients, the rum, the orange juice and rind and the melted butter. While the batter is resting, butter a 25-cm diameter x 10-cm deep cake tin and preheat the oven to