Nantes Cake (Gateau Nantais)

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This affluent yet elemental barroom has been a specialty successful the occidental French metropolis of Nantes since the 18th century. Its profoundly golden, almond genoise is soaked successful a rum syrup (dark rum was brought into the city's once-great larboard from the West Indies) and cloaked successful an elegant drape of rum-infused royal icing.

Salted food is simply a indispensable successful this recipe, arsenic it is successful each accepted recipes of Nantes -- erstwhile the superior of Brittany wherever oversea brackish is harvested.

You'll request an 8-inch circular barroom cookware (or springform pan) with sides astatine slightest 2 inches tall.

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The finished barroom needs to remainder astatine country somesthesia for a time earlier serving.

From cookbook writer Jamie Schler.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 10)

• Calories

  340

• Fat

  18 g

• Saturated Fat

  7 g

• Carbohydrates

  38 g

• Sodium

  110 mg

• Cholesterol

  85 mg

• Protein

  5 g

• Fiber

  1 g

• Sugar

  33 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Jamie Schler.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.