Almond Layer Cake

Name: Almond Layer Cake
Yield: Serves 10 to 12 (Makes enough batter for two 9-inch or three 8-inch cake layers)
Ingredients: 2 1/4 cups (9 ounces), cake flour; 1 1/2 teaspoons, baking powder; 3/4 teaspoon, salt; 1 3/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons (13 ounces), sugar; 6 , large eggs, room temperature; 5 tablespoons, slivered almond; 2 1/4 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 1 1/2 teaspoons, almond extract; 24 tablespoons (3 sticks) unsalted butter, unsalted butter, melted and hot

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2019

Desserts or Baked Goods

Cakes

SERVES10 to 12 (Makes enough batter for two 9-inch or three 8-inch cake layers)

TIME1¼ hours, plus 2 hours cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To create a rich layer cake, we turned to our Easy Almond Pound Cake recipe. Classic pound cake recipes tend to be very particular, requiring ingredients at certain temperatures and finicky mixing methods to ensure a proper emulsion of the ...

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