Red Fruit Love Cake Recipe

The steps to make it: Mix the flour, sugar, and almond powder with your fingertips. Incorporate the melted butter and knead until you obtain a sandy mixture. Once achieved, add the egg and knead again until fully incorporated. Form a ball and wrap it in plastic wrap! Place it in your refrigerator for at least thirty minutes. After the time has passed, flour your workspace and roll out your dough to 1cm thick. Use a "heart" stencil to cut out the shape neatly. Also cut strips of dough 2cm wide to go around your heart, then moisten the joints to solidify them. Prick your dough to aerate it, place a sheet of parchment paper on top, and add baking beads to prevent it from puffing up too much during pre-baking. Then, bake in your preheated oven at 190°C for 10 minutes.

Almond cream: 50g of almond powder, 1 packet of vanilla sugar, 1 egg, 50g of sugar, 50g of melted butter. To make it: simply crack the egg, mix the almond powder, sugar, vanilla sugar, melted butter, and whisk to make it well combined.

The final step is to let your tart crust cool slightly after taking it out of the oven, then spread the almond cream on top, and return it to the oven at 170°C for about fifteen minutes. Once the crust is golden, it is done. Depending on the oven, you should watch it during cooking to adjust if necessary.

To finish, the fruit topping should be done at the last moment, when your cake has cooled. Just wash, slice the strawberries in half, rinse the raspberries and mint leaves. Decorate starting from the tip of the cake, alternating the fruits. The mint leaves go on last, and if you wish, you can sprinkle powdered sugar on top. Enjoy your tasting.