I'm in the doghouse.

[GettingStuffed]

So I spent a while this morning making my Christmas cake and although I read the recipe I didn't register that it has no flour in it but had ground almonds and cornflour instead. I told DH and he said oh great in a very sarcastic tone as he hates almonds. I'm hoping the cake doesn't taste too strongly of them or I'll be making a second one.

If anyone wants to make a gluten free cakes it's the chocolate stout one from Good Housekeeping but obviously you need to make sure the beer is gluten free too.

Tell him it's best that he makes his own Christmas cake!

Your husband is a prick.

What an arsehole!

My DH says he'll have the cake if your DH won't eat it. He sounds like a tit. I hope you make him cook his own turkey & Xmas pud.

I wouldn't have told my husband just to see if he clocked it.

It'll be fine. And if he wants another I'm sure he can get on and make one!

If he's like most of my family, he doesn't like almond flavouring such as in marzipan, but are fine eating ground almonds in a recipe, they don't taste of much at all really, however yours is bring dickish.

Ground almonds in recipes just act as a flour and create the structure, you can't taste them at all. In a fruit cake you definitely wouldn't know they were there, but something like a chocolate torte they do give it a bit of a grainy texture, which I found when I made one recently. It didn't detract from our enjoyment at all.
Thank you for the recipe name and I have been umming and ahhing about whether to make one this year, so will have a look.
Enjoy your cake, your husband will be missing out if he avoids it because of ground almonds. Next time, I'd only tell someone if it was an allergy issue.

This just turned out to be a bit of nothing,cake came out of the oven and it looks like my normal one so he said it looks and smells like my normal one. As long as it gets fed he'll be happy.

Oh that’s good!

Me neither!

Christmas cake always has ground almonds in but it doesn't taste of almonds.

I'd definitely not be making another one, especially when he sounds so ungrateful.

If he doesn't like it, there's more for you.

That cake looks amazing and I doubt will taste of almond! I'm now thinking of making it myself - would you ice it like a normal Christmas cake with royal icing?

My DH claims he doesn't like almonds. I make a lemon polenta cake and a jam loaf, both of which contain ground almonds. Doesn't stop him cutting himself hefty slices!