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Santiago (Almond) Cake

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Also, to attain that Santiago cross design in the powdered sugar topping, you can obtain a kit of two (IIRC) sized stainless steel crosses at many shops in and around Santiago.

My preferred place to buy them is in kitchen supplies section of Ferreteria el Horreo, the ferreteria (hardware store) at Rua do Horreo 22, on the corner at Plaza de Galicia. Once in the store, go downstairs. The blister wrapped package with the two stainless / inox Santiago crosses will be on a wall peg on one of the walls or the pillar in the middle of the room.

Hope this helps,

Tom
 
The Canadian Company of Pilgrims posted a recipe many years ago. It works beautifully and is entirely gluten and dairy free...eggs, sugar and almond flour.
 
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One of my Camino friends brings Santiago cake to our yearly mini-reunions and it is delicious. Hers is a simpler version than the OP's entry because it uses almond flour so you don't need to use a food processor to grind almonds, and it uses almond/vanilla extract and no alcohol. The other ingredients are about the same.
 
One of my Camino friends brings Santiago cake to our yearly mini-reunions and it is delicious. Hers is a simpler version than the OP's entry because it uses almond flour so you don't need to use a food processor to grind almonds, and it uses almond/vanilla extract and no alcohol. The other ingredients are about the same.
I switched to almond flour as well when making tarta. It is now readily available and I'd rather marinate the almonds in a little olive oil, lemon, rosemary and salt and eat them with pimientos! 🥾 🍷
 
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Also, to attain that Santiago cross design in the powdered sugar topping, you can obtain a kit of two (IIRC) sized stainless steel crosses at many shops in and around Santiago.

My preferred place to buy them is in kitchen supplies section of Ferreteria el Horreo, the ferreteria (hardware store) at Rua do Horreo 22, on the corner at Plaza de Galicia. Once in the store, go downstairs. The blister wrapped package with the two stainless / inox Santiago crosses will be on a wall peg on one of the walls or the pillar in the middle of the room.

Hope this helps,

Tom
What a lovely souvenir to bring back. I cut out my own stencil on heavy paper/ light board from a cake box which I keep next to my recipe.
 
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Also, to attain that Santiago cross design in the powdered sugar topping, you can obtain a kit of two (IIRC) sized stainless steel crosses at many shops in and around Santiago.

My preferred place to buy them is in kitchen supplies section of Ferreteria el Horreo, the ferreteria (hardware store) at Rua do Horreo 22, on the corner at Plaza de Galicia. Once in the store, go downstairs. The blister wrapped package with the two stainless / inox Santiago crosses will be on a wall peg on one of the walls or the pillar in the middle of the room.

Hope this helps,

Tom
fun fact, it's not a cross, its a sword, the legend is that he appeared and with his sword he chased the Moors out of Spain, which is weird because a) he had been dead for over 500 years and b) all the first Christians were pacifists. Great cake though, i wished I could've brought one home.
 

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