Greek love cake

Babiche Martens

If you don’t have a processor, stage two can be done in a bowl using your fingers, as the Greeks would do! This is just the most delicious cake to serve after dinner with a small coffee and a good spoon of thick Greek yoghurt. If you’re keen, toast and grind your almonds fresh, the taste will be even better.

Ingredients

2 cups	Ground almonds (Main)
1 cup	Brown sugar
¼ cup	Raw sugar
80 g	Softened butter
2	Eggs
¾ cup	Greek yoghurt, plus extra to serve (Main)
1 tsp	Cinnamon
½ tsp	Ground nutmeg
½ cup	Pistachios, roughly chopped (Main)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 170C. Line a 20cm cake tin with baking paper.
2. Into a food processor place the almonds, brown sugar, raw sugar and butter, blitzing until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Press half the mixture into the base of your tin. To the remaining mixture add the eggs, yoghurt, cinnamon and nutmeg and blend to combine. Pour over the base and sprinkle with pistachios.
3. Bake in the oven for 35 minutes. Remove and leave to cool completely before slicing. Serve with extra Greek yoghurt.