Help Please! The other day I baked an Orange Almond Cake but also

[sylvia]

forgot the sugar. The "cake" is made only from almond meal, eggs and orange zest. Could that be a base for some sort of confection? I was thinking of covering it with icing sugar and serving small wedges with fruit salad.

BTW, I remade the cake because I had promised to bring same to a lunch with friends the next day.

 

[sylvia]

also = alas. Sigh!

 

[Marg CDN]

Absolutely. Why not use it as a base for peaches. You could put a pastry cream over rounds of it

(I guess that would involve slicing it horizontally) then top with peaches and almond scented whipped cream. You could compress the base a bit, or not.

Or slice again like that and soak with triple sec and do the same.

Or chunk it up with peaches and almond-scented whipped cream, topped with toasted almonds.

Or make a gelatin-based mousse to put between layers and set i up in the fridge.

 

[angak1]

I was thinking some kind of trifle.

 

[meryl]

Cut into small pieces and mix into vanilla ice cream. Great combination.

 

[marilynfl]

Peach trifle?

 

[traca]

It will be fine. I'd brush it with a citrus sugar syrup and serve with macerated fruit.

 

[sylvia]

Thanks for your suggestions ladies. I hate to throw the "cake" out. Will report back.