Orange and Almond Dessert Cake
By: Anonymous
Published: Monday, November 30, 2009 - 5:00pm

Ingredients




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

Preparation

1 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. 2 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. 3 NOTES : Based on a Spanish recipe, this dessert cake is very easily made. 4 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.