Baking Heaven

12 MONTHS OF BIRTHDAYS

ALMOND AMARETTOCAKE

A delicate almond, brown butter sponge, soaked in amaretto and layered with white chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream and crunchy slivered almonds.

Our lucky May babies get to celebrate their birthdays in a beautifully sweet and vibrant part of the calendar year. It’s a joyous month for festivities! Spring is about to turn into summer, and nature all around is flourishing and abundant. May was not named after Maia the Greek goddess of fertility for nothing, and the May birthstone of the glittering green emerald has long been associated with fertility, rebirth, love and happiness.

With so much vitality associated with this month it felt appropriate to focus May’s cake recipe on a humble yet vital ingredient that has been around as long as the Early Bronze Age. It is an ingredient that is eaten all over the world and is consumed in

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