Burnt almond cake

This rustic Burnt Almond Torte is an iconic Pittsburgh treat that everyone loves. Moist yellow cake is layered with silky, vanilla pastry cream, and iced with a fluffy almond-flavored buttercream frosting, then covered in toasted, sugared almonds. One bite and you’ll be craving more.

Layers of cake, custard, frosting, and coated with sugared toasted almonds – this Burnt Almond Torte Cake Recipe has to make an appearance on your next dessert spread, STAT! This burnt almond torte cake are what dreams are made of. If you are an almond lover like me, then this is THE cake for you!...

This toasted almond cream cake has 2 layers of moist, soft almond vanilla cake. It's frosted with smooth almond buttercream and covered in almond slices! This cake is packed with almond flavor from almond extract and is super easy to decorate. It's moist, fluffy, and so delicious!

This is a copycat recipe I found in the paper of the famous Burnt Almond Torte from Prantl's bakery in Shadyside, a neighborhood of Pittsburgh. This is the best Burnt Almond Torte you will ever taste! As close to the original as it gets.

Our toasted almond dessert consists of layers of tender white cake that are filled with creamy, almond-tinged custard and covered with fluffy amaretto buttercream and crunchy caramelized almonds. For this toasted almond cake recipe, we use a white layer cake that bakes up incredibly moist, tender, and flavorful using a reverse creaming method. The cake rounds are halved (to make four layers) and stacked, filled with a foolproof pastry cream thickened with cornstarch and flavored with…

My dear friend Drew celebrated his birthday last week. As my gift to him, I did what I do…I baked. He had mentioned weeks before his love of “wedding cake”, so I had a plan to make him one for his birthday. But as the big day approached, it became clear he had something quite specific in mind. What he desired was the “Italian” wedding cake that he enjoyed growing up in Pennsylvania. This cake was beyond the scope of my experience, so I went to the www to do a little research. I found two…

Burnt Almond Cake has fluffy almond cake, almond pastry cream, and almond frosting, covered in candied almond slices.

Prantl's Bakery, creators of the famous Pittsburgh Burnt Almond Torte, now ship nationwide on Goldbelly®—order the famous cake online for delivery to your door.

Stop dreaming of your own moist cake with custard, toasted almonds and homemade frosting and make your own Copycat Prantl's Burnt Almond Torte!

Prantl's Bakery Mini Burnt Almond Tortes