July 24, 2010 Food & drink 
The list of ingredients here is impressively short, but the technique is fiendishly difficult and needs a lot of concentration, good timing and, inevitably, a few botched attempts before you get it right. It’s worth persevering, though. Almonds coated in a crust of crystallised sugar? What could be better than that? Put 155g of almonds [...]
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This has everything you’d want in a cake – it’s sweet, moist and delicious, it keeps well and it’s straightforward to make. I may go so far as to say that it’s nearly foolproof, but that I don’t want to tempt fate. Start – as you start every single cake baking adventure – by greasing [...]
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