Meyer Lemon Upside-Down Cake
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- Yield Serves 8
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons softened unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar
- 2 Meyer lemons
- 1 1/2 cups toasted whole almonds
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 4 large egg yolks
- 1/3 cup honey
- 4 large egg whites
Directions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Rub bottom and sides of an 8-inch cake pan with 2 tablespoons butter and sprinkle bottom with sugar. Thinly slice lemons and remove seeds. Arrange lemon slices in concentric circles over brown sugar. Set aside.
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In a food processor, pulse almonds until finely ground. Add baking soda and
salt, and pulse to combine. In a medium bowl, whisk together egg yolks and honey. Stir in almond mixture. -
Beat egg whites until doubled in volume (but do not form soft peaks). Gently fold whites into almond mixture until just combined. Transfer batter to prepared cake pan.
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Bake until top is deep golden brown and a skewer inserted into middle comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Let cool in pan for 5 minutes. Carefully turn out onto a serving plate. Serve warm or at room temperature. Slice with a serrated knife.
I am not sure what I did wrong. It tastes good but it looks like the lemon slices start floating up a little while baking and became buried in the middle of the cake. Mine is not as dramatic looking as the picture.
This is a fabulous cake! And yes, it is flourless. The ground almonds are essentially used in place of the flour. We did a review of it on our blog...check it out: http://wholegreenlove.com/2012/01/07/if-life-hands-you-meyer-lemons/
i e-mailed martha stewart living and they stand behind this recipe saying that it is a flourless cake. i'm going to try to make it this week, will let you know how it turns out!
has anyone tried this recipe, I too am concerned about the lack of flour. It doesn't seem as though 1 1/2 cup of ground almonds and some eggs is enough to make an entire cake. HELP, where is the recipe master?
I don't see flour in this recipe, is this a flourless cake?
This could easily be adapted to many diet by changing honey to Blue Agave, and brown sugar to the Splenda brown sugar!