Dutch Almond Cake

Ingredients:

• 200g butter
• 300g sugar
• 3 eggs
• 250g self rising flour
• 70g ground almonds
• 2 tsp almond essence

Preheat the oven to 180Celsius (350F).
Cream the butter and 200g of sugar. Add two beaten eggs and mix well.
Add the flour and mix again.

In another bowl make the filling.
Mix together the ground almonds, 100 g of sugar, one beaten egg and the almond essence.
Spread half the cake mixture into a 20cm round (or square) cake tin.
Spread the filling on top of this and then spread the remaining cake mixture on top.

Bake for about 50 minutes, or until cake is loose in the tin. The top of the cake should be golden, NOT brown.

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