Where I work, on your birthday you bring in a cake to share with everyone but if truth be told, any day is a good day for cake in our office. Recently it was K’s birthday and the cake she made was an Orange and Almond cake. After the first few bites, there were a few requests for the recipe and I decided to give this moist, gluten free cake a go myself last weekend.
Other than the taste, another appeal of this cake is that it is all made in a food processor, or using a stick blender if you prefer (and as they do in the video on the SBS website). Providing you use gluten free baking powder, this cake is gluten free. You will need, two oranges, almond meal, caster sugar, eggs, baking powder and icing sugar to dust the finished cake.
The cake uses the entire orange so they need to be boiled for two hours until they are nice and soft. Keep and eye on the pot as the water will evaporate as it boils (I know, stating the obvious) so make sure you keep topping it up.
After two hours, remove the oranges from the water and place in a bowl to allow to cool to room temperature. Once cool, place the eggs and sugar into the bowl of the food processor and blend until well beaten.
Add the whole oranges, you can slice them in half if they don’t quite fit, and process until the oranges are pureed.
Finally add the almond meal and baking powder and blend until just combined.
Pour the mixture into a lined spring form or loose base cake tin and bake in a 160°C preheated oven for 1 to 1¼ hours (mine needed closer to 1½ hours). Allow the cake to cool completely in the tin, then carefully remove and dust with icing sugar.
Mine did sink a little bit in the middle as it wasn’t as cooked as I thought it was (it looks worse in the picture above because it is not on a flat plate) but it still tasted pretty gosh darn good. I sliced the cake and froze the individual slices so I can grab them as needed for morning tea.
| Prep Time | 15 minutes |
| Cook Time | 210 minutes |
| Servings |
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- 2 oranges
- 250 g caster sugar
- 6 egg(s)
- 250 g almond meal
- 1 tsp baking powder
- icing sugar to serve
Ingredients
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- Wash the oranges and place in a pot of boiling water and boil for two hours, ensuring you top up the water as it evaporates. Remove from the pot and place in a bowl to cool.
- Preheat the oven to 160°C and line a spring form pan or loose base pan with baking paper.
- Into the bowl of a food processor (or a standard bowl to use with a stick blender), place the caster sugar and eggs. Blend until well beaten.
- Add the whole oranges and process until they are pureed.
- Place the almond meal and baking powder into the bowl and blend until combined.
- Pour the batter into the prepared cake tin and bake in the preheated oven for 1 to 1.5 hours (checking after one hour whether it is cooked by inserting a skewer - it will come out clean when done).
- Allow the cake to cool completely in the tin, then remove and dust with icing sugar.
This is an interesting recipe! I’ve never seen a cake using whole oranges before, but this sounds delicious!
I hadn’t heard about it either Hallie but it certainly makes for one delicious cake. The hubby wasn’t impressed with the smell of the boiling oranges after a while, but he certainly enjoyed the end result. Thanks for stopping by!