Orange and Almond Dessert Cake

Ingredients

2 Juicy oranges, thick skinned
250 grams Ground almonds, coarsely chopped
185 grams Caster sugar
1 tablespoon Baking powder

Preparation

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Wash oranges, place in saucepan and cover with water. Simmer gantly for 2 hours ir until very tender. Cool slightly, halve the oranges and discard pips. Chop skin and pulp roughly the puree in a good processor. Beat the eggs until light coloured, add remaining ingredients and blend throughly.
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Pou into a buttered and floured tin [ about 22 CM] and bake in a preheated 190 degree C oven for about 1 hour or until cake is golden and just firm to the touch. Leave in the tin until quite cold. Serve with whipped cream. I like to either simmer orange rind shreds in a sugar syrup and serve a small pile of those beside the cake and decorate with candied peel, together with a few orange segments marinated in a little syrup and sometimes with a good dash of Grand Marnier. Pass the cream separately.
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NOTES : Based on a Spanish recipe, this dessert cake is very easily made.
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Itcan be made forPassover, but if so, the baking powder must be omitted and the eggsseperated. The whites arewhipped stifly and folded in after the other ingredients are mixed.

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Yield:

8.0 servings

Added:

Monday, November 30, 2009 - 5:00pm

Creator:

Anonymous

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