Walnut Cake with 3 Ingredients

Gluten-free cake: what can be better: there is no milk, no flour simple walnut cake recipe – just 3-ingredients. The famous Mediterranean cuisine is rich in delicious desserts and this is the easiest cake recipe: 3 ingredients – nuts, sugar and eggs (no flour, no milk, no baking powder).
Where else could such a surprisingly simple cake have appeared, if not in the south of Italy, where people know a lot about good food but also about relaxing. Italy, with its careful, rather even reverent attitude to its traditions and culture, is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for creativity, including culinary!

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CALABRIAN WALNUT CAKE

Ingredients (6-8 servings) form 22-24 cm

• 250 g Walnuts
• 4 medium Eggs
• 150 g Sugar or Icing sugar

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INSTRUCTIONS

Grind the nuts into crumbs in a blender or knife.

Put a sheet of baking paper to the bottom of the mold with a diameter of 22-24 cm. Grease the side with butter and sprinkle with nuts.

Take room temperature eggs, separate the yolks from the whites. Beat the whites with a pinch of salt, add 2 tablespoons of sugar. Beat in a dense foam until stable peaks.

Put the yolks in a large bowl, add half the sugar, beat until the mass turns white, and increases in volume, gradually adding the remaining sugar. Beat until sugar is completely dissolved.

Add grounded nuts to beaten egg yolks. Stir well.

Add whipped whites in three steps to the dough, stirring with a spatula from the bottom up.

Pour the dough into the form, flatten. Bake the cake for about 35-40 minutes at 180C. Leave the cake to cool completely, remove from the mold.

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Gluten free cake - what could be better: no milk, no flour simple walnut cake recipe - just 3-ingredients.
Walnut cake with 3 ingredients
Category: Cakes & Desserts
Cuisine: Italian
Servings: 8
Ingredients
250 g Walnuts
4 medium Eggs
150 g Sugar or Icing sugar
Instructions
Grind the nuts into crumbs in a blender or knife.
Put a sheet of baking paper to the bottom of the mold with a diameter of 22-24 cm. Grease the side with butter and sprinkle with nuts.
Separate the yolks from the whites. 
Beat the whites with a pinch of salt, add 2 tablespoons of sugar. Beat in dense foam until stable peaks.
Put the yolks in a large bowl, add half the sugar, beat until the mass turn white and increases in volume, gradually adding the remaining sugar. Beat until sugar is completely dissolved. Add grounded nuts to beaten egg yolks. Stir well. Add whipped whites in three steps to the dough, stirring with a spatula from the bottom up.
Pour the dough into the form, flatten. Bake for about 35-40 minutes at 180C. Leave to cool completely, remove from the mold.
Chef Black Pepper
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