Yesterday, I made "Berliner Mandelbrot" - my absolute favourite Christmas bake. Here's the recepy.
I only have it in Gramm weight, but you can easily google for a website to change it to your local weight.
4 eggs
400 g ground almonds
400 g brown sugar
300 g wheat flour
40 g cacao
1 good soup spoon of cinnamon
half a teaspoon ground cloves
half a teaspoon cardamom
a flat teaspoon of baking powder
a little salt
Heat the backing oven to 200° Celsuis.
And now for all rotary fans especially - equip your rotary stirrer with the kneader tools.
Stirr the eggs with the sugar; then add the ground almonds, cacao, cinnamon, salt and spices
and stirr again. Now add the flour bit for bit, and the backing powder, while kneading the pastry.
It will become pretty tough - you may add a little hot water, but only so much, that your kneader
won't collapse.
Now smear a little butter on a baking tray, especially into the corners, so the cake will come off
better, when it's ready. Then pour the pastry onto the tray, and flatten it equally thick over the whole
tray. That may be easiest by putting your hands into a bowl of warm water and then flatten it by
hands. When the pastry begins to stick on your hands, put them into the water again.
Now you put the baking tray into the heated oven and bake it for 20 minutes.
It will still be soft enough to cut it into the right sized peaces after baking it; then let it cool out.
You may need a pan scraper to get it from the tray later, without having half of the almond bread
sticking to the tray.
I hope you will find it as delicious as I do - enjoy!