Flourless Orange Cake

Prep time: 15 minutes

Cook time: 2 hours 45 minutes

Serves: 8 People

Poppy’s 2nd Birthday Flourless Orange Cake!! This was so so delicious and other than the construction of the number 2 was really easy!

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  • Prep time: 15 minutes
  • Cook time: 2 hours 45 minutes
  • Total time: 3 hours
  • Serves: 8 People

Ingredients

  • 4 Oranges
  • 6 Eggs
  • 250 g Almond meal
  • 250 g Caster sugar
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • Butter (to grease tin)
  • 6 Cardamon pods
  • 250 mL Boiling water
  • 5 tbsp Honey
  • Flaked almonds
  • Icing sugar

Method

  • 1)

    Boil 2 oranges in water until soft (whole oranges took approx 2 hours, finely cut took 15 mins).

  • 2)

    Preheat oven to 190C.

  • 3)

    Crack eggs into blender and add boiled oranges allow to cool so not to scramble eggs).

  • 4)

    Blitz in blender or food processor.

  • 5)

    Add blender mixture to mixing bowl then add almond meal, caster sugar, baking powder to bowl and mix.

  • 6)

    Butter up a cake tin or loaf tin, pour mixture in, flatten out with spatula.

  • 7)

    Put in oven on 190C for 45 mins.

  • 8)

    Make syrup by adding cardamon, zest and juice of 2 oranges, honey and boiling water to a pot.

  • 9)

    Boil down for approx 30 mins.

  • 10)

    When cake and syrup is ready, pour syrup over cake. Sprinkle flaked almonds and dust with icing sugar.

  • 11)

    Serve!!

Notes

This makes enough for a normal loaf/cake tin half of the “2” picture, enough for approx 8 ppl.

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