Tarta de Santiago is a flat, dense almond cake from Galicia in northwestern Spain, made from ground almonds, sugar, eggs, and lemon zest, with no flour and no butter. It is finished with a dusting of powdered sugar stenciled around the Cross of Saint James — the Cruz de Santiago — which is pressed into […]

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Bienenstich — “bee sting cake” in German — is a yeasted cake topped with a caramelized honey and almond crust, split horizontally and filled with a thick vanilla custard or pastry cream. The top is the thing that defines it: the honey-almond mixture bakes into a brittle, amber-colored layer that shatters when you cut through […]

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