Each buttery-crisp almond cake has moist insides hugging a blueberry.
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- 1 cup almond flour
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 Tbsp cornstarch
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1½ tsp dark rum
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp lemon zest
- 24 blueberries
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 Tbsp dark rum
How to Make It
- Preheat oven to 350°. Melt butter in a heavy saucepan over medium heat. Cook 5 to 10 minutes or just until butter begins to brown and develop a nutty aroma. Remove from heat; skim off foam. Pour through a fine wire-mesh strainer into a small bowl; cool completely.
- Spread almond flour in a thin layer on a baking sheet. Bake at 350° for 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely.
- Increase oven temperature to 400°. Lightly butter 2 (12-cup) miniature muffin pans.
- Combine almond flour, granulated sugar, and cornstarch in a bowl. Add browned butter, eggs, and next 3 ingredients, stirring until blended.
- Spoon batter into prepared pans, filling ⅔ full. Place 1 blueberry in center of each cup. Bake at 400° for 11 minutes or until cakes spring back when touched. Cool in pans 5 minutes on wire racks; remove from pans and cool completely on wire racks.
- While cakes cool, combine powdered sugar, 1 Tbsp. rum and 1 Tbsp. water; stirring until smooth. Drizzle glaze over cakes.