At present’s maple almond cake recipe is ideal for fall and winter gatherings! Three comfortable, moist maple almond cake layers are flavored with maple syrup, crushed almonds, extracts, and a heavenly almond cream cheese frosting.
In case you are in search of your subsequent fall cake recipe, it is a nice one. We have mixed components from our standard almond cake and maple cake recipes to create this scrumptious dessert.
a Make Maple Almond Cream Cheese Cake
Yow will discover the full, printable cake recipe additional down on this put up. Here’s a fast take a look at the steps.
- Preheat oven to 350 levels F. Grease and flour three 8 inch spherical pans, add a circle or parchment paper or waxed paper. Sprinkle the finely chopped almonds over the parchment paper and put aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk the cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt for 30 seconds. Put aside
- In one other bowl, mix these moist elements: buttermilk, vegetable oil, maple syrup, and extracts (vanilla, maple, and almond extracts). Â Put aside.
- Within the bowl of your mixer, add the butter and blend at medium velocity till easy.
- Steadily add the white and brown sugar and proceed to combine on medium velocity for 3 to five minutes till lightened in coloration and fluffy.
- Add the eggs separately mixing after every till the yellow of the yolk has blended.
- With the mixer on low velocity, alternately add the flour combination and buttermilk combination, starting and ending with the dry elements (3 additions of dry elements and a pair of of liquid). Combine simply till included.
- Divide batter between the three 8 inch cake pans, pouring the batter on prime of the finely chopped almonds within the ready pans.
- Bake at 350 levels for 22 – 25 minutes or till a toothpick inserted within the middle comes out clear or with simply few crumbs connected. Let cool 10 minutes and end up.
Almond Cream Cheese Frosting
The cake layers have a bit extra maple taste than almond, and so we balanced this by utilizing almond cream cheese frosting! This can be a creamy, flavorful frosting that we’ll be utilizing in between the cake layers are properly as to frost the cake.
The recipe combines softened cream cheese and butter, powdered sugar, a pinch of salt, and almond extract. If it turns into too comfortable at any time, merely refrigerate to thicken. As at all times, muffins which are frosted with cream cheese frosting will should be refrigerated. You’ll love this straightforward, decadent frosting.
Assembling the Cake
As soon as the cake layers have cooled, it’s time to assemble!
Place the primary cake layer on the pedestal. As we talked about within the recipe, the maple glaze is elective however we just like the added enhance of maple taste. Utilizing a silicone pastry brush, we frivolously brushed the primary layer with a little bit of maple syrup.
Subsequent, apply a layer of almond cream cheese frosting. High with the second maple almond cake layer and repeat the glazing and filling step.
For the highest layer, I glazed it after which positioned it on prime of the cake glazed-side-down. I did this simply in case it might make it simpler to frost, though with such a light-weight quantity of glaze, it possible would work both approach.
Subsequent, we utilized a skinny coat (crumb coat) of almond cream cheese frosting across the prime and sides of the cake. At this level, we wish to chill the cake for 10-Quarter-hour within the freezer (or longer within the fridge) to agency the whole lot up earlier than making use of the ultimate coat of frosting.
Adorning the Cake
Enhance the cake nevertheless you want! We created scalloped impressions across the cake utilizing a small rounded offset spatula (working in vertical rows from prime to backside, and repeating all the way in which round.) The border of chunky shells and rosettes is piped from a 1M piping tip (massive star).
Recipe FAQs
Extra Almond Cake Recipes
Except for our different favourite maple muffins together with Maple Pound Cake and Maple Pecan Cake, we have made many extra almond muffins as properly!
Be sure to check out our Almond Cake, Almond Cream Cake, and Lemon Almond Cake, and Almond Raspberry Swirl Cake simply to call a number of!
For the Almond Cream Cheese Frosting
Put together Pans and Add Chopped Almonds
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Chop/crush the sliced almonds into smaller items . (You should use a small bullet blender for this, or you would place in a ziplock bag and use a rolling pin to crush.)
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Grease and flour three 8 inch spherical pans, add a circle or parchment paper or waxed paper. Sprinkle the finely chopped almonds over the parchment paper earlier than including the cake batter.
For the Cake Layers
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Preheat oven to 350 levels F.
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In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt for 30 seconds. Put aside
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In one other bowl, add the buttermilk, maple syrup, vegetable oil and extracts (maple, almond, and vanilla). Â Put aside..
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Within the bowl of your mixer, add the butter and blend at medium velocity till easy.
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Steadily add the brown and white sugar and proceed to combine on medium velocity for 3 to five minutes till lightened in coloration and fluffy.
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Add the eggs separately mixing after every addition till the yellow of the yolk has blended.
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With the mixer on low velocity, alternately add the flour combination and buttermilk combination, starting and ending with the dry elements (3 additions of dry elements and a pair of of liquid). Combine simply till included.
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Divide batter between the three cake pans, pouring the batter on prime of the finely chopped almonds on the underside of the pans.
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Bake at 350 levels for 22 – 25 minutes or till a toothpick inserted within the middle comes out clear or with simply few crumbs connected. Let cool 10 minutes and end up.
For the Almond Cream Cheese Frosting
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Minimize the butter into slices and add to the bowl of your mixer. Beat on low to medium velocity till the butter is softened and easy.
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Minimize the softened cream cheese into items and add to the butter, beating at low to medium velocity till included. In case you are utilizing a hand mixer it’s possible you’ll want to melt the cream cheese a bit extra.
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Add the almond extract. Steadily add the powdered sugar beating on low velocity till blended. Cowl the bowl with a towel if wanted to maintain down the cloud of powdered sugar.
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Improve mixing velocity barely till properly mixed. Watch out to not over-mix as it’s going to grow to be very comfortable. (If this occurs, chill it within the fridge for a bit.)
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This frosting will pipe greatest if used whereas nonetheless chilled. You may make it upfront, refrigerate after which deliver out to the kitchen counter to melt up a bit. (Re-mix if wanted).
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Will frost and fill a 3 layer 8 or 9 inch cake.
Assembling the Cake
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Place the primary *cooled* cake layer on a cake base or pedestal. Brush with a skinny layer of maple syrup. That is an elective step. It’s not wanted for moistness, nevertheless it does add an added enhance of maple taste.
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Unfold a layer of almond cream cheese frosting on prime of the cake layer. Add the second layer and repeat step(s). After frivolously glazing the ultimate cake layer, I positioned it glazed-side down on prime. It might not make a distinction however I did this simply in case it might make it simpler to frost.
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Subsequent, fill in any gaps between the cake layers with frosting and apply a skinny coat of frosting (or crumb coat) across the prime and sides of the cake. At this level we like to sit back the cake for about Quarter-hour within the freezer to agency up the frosting. This corporations the whole lot up and prevents the layers from sliding as you enhance. Apply the ultimate coat of frosting.
Adorning the Cake
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Enhance the cake nevertheless you want! We added scalloped impressions across the cake utilizing a small rounded offset spatula (working in vertical rows from prime to backside, and repeating all the way in which round.) The border of chunky shells and rosettes is piped from a 1M piping tip (massive star).
Substitution for Cake Flour: Utilizing all function flour (plain in UK) to make Cake Flour: For every cup of flour in a recipe, take away 2 Tablespoons of flour and substitute with 2 Tablespoons cornstarch (cornflour within the UK). This recipe has 3 cups of flour so you’ll measure out 3 cups of all function flour, take away 6 Tablespoons and substitute with 6 Tablespoons cornstarch, whisk to mix
Recipe makes 7 ½ cups batter
