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BASQUE CAKE

Serves 8

Preparation time: 45 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Resting time: 40 minutes

For the Basque shortbread pastry dough

1 cup plus 2 tablespoons

(2¼ sticks/250 g) unsalted butter

1 cup packed (220 g) light brown sugar

2 large (90 g) eggs (⅓ cup)

2½ cups (310 g) all-purpose flour

1⅔ cups (154 g) ground almonds

¼ (16 g) cake yeast, or 2¾

teaspoons active dry yeast

(dissolved in milk or water)

½ teaspoon (3 g) salt

For the almond cream

1 tablespoon (15 g) unsalted butter

1 ounce (30 g) piloncillo sugar

⅓ cup (30 g) ground almonds

2½ large (125 g) eggs (½ cup)

For the blueberry preserves

7 cups (1 kg) wild blueberries

½ cup (100 g) superfine sugar

2½ teaspoons (10 g) pectin NH

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