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Fairy Godmother Cake

Source of Recipe

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List of Ingredients

3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup sweet butter, room temperature
8 ounces almond paste
3 eggs
1 tablespoon Grand Marnier
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder


Recipe

Preheat over to 350. Grease and flour a 9-inch cake pan*. Cream butter and almond paste together, and blend in sugar until evenly mixed. Mix in eggs, one at a time. Add Grand Marnier and almond extract. In another bowl, sift flour and baking powder together. Fold dry ingredients into the butter/sugar/almond paste mixture. Pour cake batter into pan and bake for 35-40 minutes until firm on top. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn cake out of the pan onto a cake rack to finish cooling. Decorate top of cake with sifted powdered sugar.

Raspberry Sauce

1 quart fresh raspberries or 12 ounces frozen berries
2 tablespoons sugar if berries are fresh or unsweetened
3 tablespoons Grand Marnier

Puree berries with sugar and Grand Marnier until they are blended thoroughly. Press sauce through a strainer to remove raspberry seeds. Ladle sauce onto a dessert plate and then top with a slice of cake. Decorate with fresh berries or sprig of mint.

This cake serves 8 or 9 (it's very rich).

Bon appetit from the Chef at World Wide Recipes

* Can be baked in a fancy small tube pan (4.5 cups).