Pastis cake

Name: Pastis cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: Serves 6-8
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 185 g (6 oz) plain flour; 2 teaspoons pastis, such as Ricard or Pernod; 1 tablespoon milk; 110 g (3¾ oz) unsalted butter, at room temperature; 135 g (4½ oz) caster sugar; 25 g (¾ oz) ground almonds; ¾ teaspoon baking powder; ½ teaspoon lemon juice; 3 eggs, lightly beaten; 120 g (4 oz) icing sugar

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 20

Appears in

Cakes

By Le Cordon Bleu

Published 1999

About

A dense cake flavoured with pastis, the aniseed-flavoured apéritif so popular in the south of France.

Ingredients

110 g (3¾ oz) unsalted butter, at room temperature
135 g (4½

Europe
France
Cake
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to warm 160°C (315°F/Gas 2-3). Grease and flour a brioche tin measuring 18 cm (7