Orange and almond cake
3 Jan 2016
by Dinna
Prep Time
35 minutes
Cook Time
60 minutes
Total Time
1 hour, 35 minutes
Background
This Mandarin and almond cake is gluten-free and dairy-free - also it's made without oil, yet it's remarkablyย moist and spongy! It's perfect for special occasions, anniversaries, tea-parties or even at Christmas.
Ingredients
- 6-8 easy peelers (seedless mandarins, satsumas or clementines)
- 5 medium eggs
- 150g unrefined cane sugar
- 200g ground almonds
- 2 tsp ground mixed spice (or just cinnamon)
- Vegetable oil, for greasing
- To serve: maple syrup or honey, icing sugar
Instructions
- Put 4 mandarins in a saucepan, cover with cold water then simmer for 25 minutes. Drain and slightly cool the mandarins, then blend in a food processor until; you get a rough textured purรฉe.
- Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease a spring-form cake tin with oil and line the base with baking paper.
- In a large bowl, using an electric whisk, cream the egg yolks and half the sugar.
- In another bowl, whisk the egg whites until stiff, then whisk in the rest of the sugar.
- Fold the purรฉed mandarins, ground almonds and mixed spice into the egg yolk mixture.
- Fold a little egg white into the mixture, then gently fold in the rest.
- Transfer the mixture into the cake tin and bake for about an hour, until it's golden and an inserted skewer comes out clean.
- Leave the cake to cool in the tin, then turn it out onto a plate.
- Prick the top of cake several times with a skewer.
- Peel & slice 3 or 4 mandarins. Put these on top of the cake and drizzle over some maple syrup. Let the juices sink into the cake.
- Dust with icing sugar just before serving.
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Categories
- Meal Type: - Bake - Cakes - Dessert - Dinner - Lunch
- Cuisines: - Italian
- Occasions: - Afternoon Tea - Anniversaries - Chinese New Year - Christmas - Dinner Party - Mothers Day - New Year - Parties - Sunday Lunch - Thanksgiving - Valentine's Day
- Health and Diet: - Combination - Dairy Free - Fat Free - Gluten Free
- Skill Levels: - Moderate
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