Nuts cake, lactose free

Ingredients

• 90 g Almonds, whole, toasted
• 80 g Dried apricots
• 60 g Pine nuts, half of them roasted
• 80 ml Milk, lactose free
• 150 g All purpose flour
• 100 g Cane sugar
• 130 g Unsalted butter, lactose free
• 4 pcs Eggs
• 1 1/2 tsp Baking powder
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C then grease and flour a bread-shaped baking pan.
2. Mix half the almonds and half the pine nuts, toasted in a food processor.
3. Pulse until the nuts are finely grinded.
4. Pour the ground nuts in a bowl and combine with the flour, salt, and baking powder.
5. Mix well and set aside.
6. Use an electric mixer to beat eggs and sugar until you get a thick and pale yellow mixture.
7. Beat in the butter followed by the milk.
8. Add the apricots and the vanilla extract.
9. Now, slowly stir in the dry ingredients and pour the batter into the prepared pan.
10. Slice the remaining almonds and sprinkle them on the batter together with the remaining untoasted pine nuts.
11. Bake for about 50 minutes until a toothpick inserted at the center emerges clean.
12. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack.
13. You can use a knife to loosen the edges.
14. Slice and serve!