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Orange and almond cake

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Flourless Orange and Almond Cake is a classic Passover dessert drawing on the Sephardic traditions of Morocco, the Mediterranean and the Middle East (where citrus was more available).

Ingredients

2 oranges
6 eggs
250g caster sugar
250g almond meal
1tsp baking powder
Extra caster sugar for dusting before baking
Icing sugar for dusting after baking
Margarine or oil spray (for greasing the pan)
 

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Preparation

Wash oranges and place unpeeled, in a pot of boiling water for 2 hours. Drain the water and allow the oranges to cool. This can be done ahead of time.

Preheat oven to 190°C.

Break 6 eggs into a mixing bowl or blender. Add caster sugar and beat or blend together.
Place the two oranges into the egg mix. Break up the oranges and then blend together to a smooth consistency. Add the almond meal and baking powder and blend.

Grease a 20 cm spring form baking pan with margarine (or vegetable oil spray) and dust with caster sugar.

Pour batter into the pan and sprinkle caster sugar on top and bake for 1 hour to an hour and a half or until the top is golden brown.

Dust with icing sugar to serve.

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25 Oct 2009 08:04 AEST
Jan Easom
Colyton
Gluten Free
Now I've been diagnosed as Gluten Free I'm going to make this cake today and have also printed off everyone's comments to help me make it perfectly first time around (I hope!), Thanks
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22 Oct 2009 01:48 AEST
Jan Levin
Greater London
Orange and Almond Cake
This cake is so good; I am sorry that so many people find it difficult to make. I think it is best to follow the recipe because, after cooling and cutting the oranges in half on a plate so that you do not lose the juice, you only have to remove the pips and put the oranges in the food processor for a minute and then add all the other ingredients. I use a loaf tin and greased paper liner. In my fan assisted oven I keep a careful watch that it doesn't get too well-done, using a skewer to test.
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17 Oct 2009 08:17 AEST
judy
richmond
use manderins instead of oranges
This is a great cake and I have made it many times. It is much better if you replace the oranges with manderins
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08 Oct 2009 06:32 AEST
Leeta Witham
St. Ives
There is an easier way to make this cake
If you don't want to boil the oranges for 2 hours. Wash and put in a zip lock freezer bag. Cook on high in Microwave for 10 minutes. Let cool and then blend in the food processor. Take out and then blend eggs, sugar, baking powder and almonds, add blended oranges last and then pour into cake tin to cook. It should only need one hour in a 180 C. I have made this cake around 100 times and never had a flop. However i have never blended the oranges in with the sugar and eggs . YUK.
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04 Sep 2009 12:26 AEST
ravina
lakemba
Cake baking tempreture
what temp are you suppose to bake this cake ?
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30 Aug 2009 06:08 AEST
M. Ovcina
Manly, NSW
Orange Cake
Hi there, This recipe is absolutely fantastic. I've never seen a cake recipe with so few ingredients, not to mention without flour. Like others, I am also modifying it to suit my oven baking time. I have SBS to blame for my husband's constant nagging about when I'm going to make the cake again. Not a week goes by without having made one. I think it will become a staple desert in the future.
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28 Jul 2009 09:20 AEST
Helen Rose
Sydney
Healthy & Delicious!
Baking cakes is not my forte, but this one is simple. The best desert ever! I reduce the temperature to 170-180, and bake for 1 hour. The fragrance from boiling the oranges (I used naval) and the cake is delicious! Highly recommended!
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25 Jul 2009 04:49 AEST
Scoota
Brisbane
Dinner party favourite
This cake is sublime! (suborange!?) It was the hands down favourite at a food safari-inspired dinner party scoring 10/10 from our highly objective guinea pigs.
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