Little Lime Cakes - ★Cooking Recipes★

These little lime-flavoured almond cakes are delectably moist and slightly chewy. Serve them for dessert or snack on them like cookies! If you don't happen to have a madeleine pan you can use a mini muffin pan.
Directions for: Little Lime Cakes

Ingredients

Lime Cakes

3 egg whites

cup melted butter plus,

1 Tbsp melted butter

cup ground almonds

cup icing sugar, sifted

cup all-purpose flour

Grate zest of 1 lime

2 tsp lime juice

pinch salt

12 whole blanched almonds, toasted

Assembly

icing sugar, for dusting cakes

Directions

Lime Cakes

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

2. Brush a madeleine pan with melted butter.

3. In a medium bowl, whisk together the egg whites, butter, ground almonds, icing sugar, salt and flour.

4. Add the lime zest and juice.

5. Whisk until combined.

6. Divide the mixture among 12 cups of the buttered madeleine pan (approximately 1 tbsp. each) and top each with a toasted almond.

7. Bake the little cakes for 15 to 20 minutes until golden pale.

8. Turn cakes out onto a wire rack and cool.

Assembly

1. Serve the cakes dusted with icing sugar

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