🇪🇸 How to Make Tarta de Santiago

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🛒 Ingredients

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• 250g ground almonds
• 250g sugar
• 4 eggs
• zest of 1 lemon
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• icing sugar to finish

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Heat the oven to 180°C and line a 22cm tin.
2. Beat the eggs and sugar until pale and thick, about 4 min.
3. Fold in the almonds, zest and cinnamon. That is the entire batter — there is no flour and no butter.
4. Bake 30–35 min until set and lightly golden.
5. Cool completely in the tin. It is fragile while warm.
6. Traditionally dusted with icing sugar around a cut-out cross of St James. A paper stencil works fine.