Tarta de Santiago
Tarta de Santiago is a Spanish almond cake from Galicia. It is an easy cake to make, with only 3 main ingredients, and it is well-suited for the holiday season. This cake is dusted with icing sugar, with an imprint of Santiago’s cross on its top surface.
Total
00:55
Yield
8
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- ¾ cup (150 g) white granulated sugar
- Zest of 1 lemon
- Zest of 1 clementine
- 1½ cup (150 g) almond meal
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- Icing sugar
- Total:
- 00:55
- Yield:
- 8
Instructions
-
1Add eggs and sugar to a bowl, and whisk rapidly until mixture turns pale.
-
2Whisk in the citrus zests.
-
3Combine the almond meal, cinnamon, and salt in a separate bowl. Transfer to the egg mixture, and use a rubber spatula to gently fold everything together until well combined.
-
4Butter and flour the springform pan, then pour in the batter. Smooth the top if necessary.
-
5Bake in preheated oven at 360ºF (180ºC) for 40 minutes or until golden brown and fully cooked in the center.
-
6Cool completely, and unmold the cake.
-
7Place a Santiago cross cut-out on top of the cake, then dust generous amount of icing sugar all over cake.
-
8Carefully remove the cross cut-out. Slice and serve.
- Category
- Desserts
- Cuisine
- Spanish
Recipe Attribution
Wikibooks Cookbook
Printed from recipe.exchange
https://recipe.exchange/recipes/wb-470806
Printed on October 28, 2026