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Orange and almond cake recipe

Created by Batia Slater

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4.5/ 5 stars 825 Votes

Cuisine: Jewish

Batia Slater shares this easy orange and almond cake recipe with Food Safari's Maeve O'Meara. 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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Comments (174)

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06 Feb 2012 11:13 AEST

Suellen

VIC

Awesome cake!!

The cake turned out beautifully! I am happy for the result.

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30 Jan 2012 02:14 AEST

Helen McDermott

Leicestershire, UK

Frozen

Can this cake be frozen? As it takes some time to make, it would be beneficial for me to make in advance and freeze.

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29 Jan 2012 02:55 AEST

Katya

Melbourne, Vic

Orange and almond cake

Made this recently after watching a re-run of the Jewish recipe. Delish!!!!!!!!! Mind you reading the comments and getting all the tips from other commentators beforehand has helped enormously. Removing the pith was a definite go-er as was the oven temp recommendation and baking paper lining. I mixed everything in a food processor. Hope more Jewish recipes are forthcoming. Todah.

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29 Jan 2012 02:47 AEST

Marlene

Portland

Just trying-orange cake

Have just started to cook oranges. Shall let you how I get on. I saw the recipe on Austar and it looked delicious. Cant wait till oranges are cooled and i can try it.

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23 Jan 2012 04:01 AEST

Annonymous

Orange and Almond Cake

The cake came out extremely moist however I wasn't too sure on whether or not i hate completelely cooked out the bitterness of the oranges. I ended up using 2.5 small oranges and I made my own almond meal using raw almonds with their skin on for extra fibre. I wish the recipe specified whether the eggs were medium, large or extra large

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10 Jan 2012 05:08 AEST

Nelson

Toronto, Canada

This cake is a hit.

I made this cake three times and each time it disappeared quickly and I ended up sharing the recipe each time. I use three navel oranges, add an extra egg and bump up the almonds to 300 grams so it can fill my spring form pan. I take raw almonds and put it in the food processor to grind up into meal. Cheaper that way. I leave the dark outer part on the almonds before grinding and serve the cake with fresh whipped cream with a bit of vanilla and sugar. Delicious.

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24 Dec 2011 10:44 AEST

Terry

Shepherd's Bush

Orange & almond cake

Deelish. And very simple to make. Has anyone tried to make it with pears or apples? Would that work on principle?

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23 Sep 2011 02:45 AEST

Bev May

Mayfield

Orange & Almond Cake

Could you tell me please what is teh advantage or not or boiling the oranges for 2 hours??

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