Almond paste is my new best friend

My new all time favorite!

Why: One of my sisters worker wanted an almond cake for her birthday. She sent along a recipe but I was sketched out because there was no flour! I've made some flourless items before but this recipe had no obvious substitutions so I had to come to the conclusion that the author just forgot to include it when publishing. I found something I was comfortable with and I'm very happy with the results.

What: Part of the guidelines was almond cake, pastry cream, fresh raspberries. The fresh raspberries were a little hard to find since it was the dead of winter but I managed. The cake is an almond bundt cake with almond paste mixed into the batter *drool* with pastry cream that I lightly flavored with almond extract and fresh raspberries. Since it was the first time I had made the cake and fiddled around the with the recipe I made a mini bundt for myself and it quickly disappeared which in my book means that it's a huge success. One of the cakes didn't release from the pan cleanly so I saved it for a super bowl party and filled it with pears instead of raspberries. I hate to say, the pears couldn't hold up against the almond flavors and the pear flavor was completely lost.