Lemon Cake with Sliced Almonds
Ingredients
- Also
- 2 egg whites
- 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
- 100 grams slivered almonds
- For the cake
- 6 eggs
- salt
- 150 grams sugar
- 170 grams Pastry flour
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- For the filling
- 200 milliliters lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 6 sheets white gelatin
- 1 Vanilla bean
- 250 milliliters Whipped cream (at least 30% fat content)
- 100 grams powdered sugar
- 1 kilogram Quark
- 1 teaspoon Lemon peel
Preparation steps
Preheat oven to 180°C (approximately 350°F). For the cake, separate eggs. Beat egg whites until stiff with a pinch of salt. Cream yolks with sugar until white and creamy. Mix flour and cornstarch and carefully stir into egg yolk mixture. Fold in egg white mixture and pour into a springform pan lined with baking paper. Bake for 35-40 minutes.
For the filling, mix lemon juice with sugar in a saucepan and heat. Mix cornstarch with a little cold water and use to thicken lemon-sugar mixture. Remove from heat and cool. Soak gelatin in cold water. Remove baked cake, cool, remove cake ring and cut in half horizontally to make 2 cake layers. Spread lemon pudding on bottom cake layer and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Cut vanilla pod lengthwise and scrape out seeds. Beat heavy cream with 2 tablespoons powdered sugar until stiff. Mix quark with vanilla seeds, lemon zest and remaining sugar until smooth. Heat gelatin in a saucepan, add 2 tablespoons of quark mixture and then add back to quark mixture. Gradually fold in cream. Place a cake ring around bottom cake layer, spread filling on top and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Whisk egg whites with 1 tablespoon powdered sugar until stiff and spread on top cake layer. Sprinkle with sliced almonds and broil for 4-6 minutes under broiler, watching carefully. Remove, cool and place on top of cake. Cut into pieces and serve.