Breads, Biscuits and Cakes Recipes - Almond Rice Cake

Ingredients  

• 225 g/8 oz/1 cup butter or margarine

• 225 g/8 oz/1 cup caster (superfine) sugar

• 3 eggs, beaten

• 100 g/4 oz/1 cup plain (all-purpose) flour

• 75 g/3 oz/3/4 cup self-raising (self­rising) flour

• 75 g/3 oz/3/4 cup ground rice

• 2.5 ml/1/2 tsp almond essence (extract)

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Method:

1. Beat the fat and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg a little at a time.

2. Sift the flours together and fold in with the ground rice and almond essence.

3. Turn into a greased and lined 20 cm/8 in round cake tin (pan) and bake at 150°C/300°F/gas mark 2 for 1 1/4 hours or until firm to the touch.

4. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out on to a wire rack to cool completely.