Tarta de Santiago
📍 Galicia
Moist almond cake stencilled with the cross of St James.
About Tarta de Santiago
A flourless cake of ground almonds, egg and sugar is baked moist and dense, then dusted with icing sugar around a stencil of the cross of Saint James. It is the cake of the pilgrim city of Santiago.
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