Orange and almond cake recipe

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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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06 Feb 2009 04:53 AEST
Graeme
Rosetta Tas
Orange and almond cake
Just made this and is in the oven cooking now. But made a mistake in adding 1 tablespoon baking power instead of a teaspoon. Oh well, if too bitter, i'll make another one tomorrow.
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06 Feb 2009 03:13 AEST
Karen
Noble Park
Orange and almond cake
Just finished making it. I just hope it lasts until my guests get her for a bbq. The smell of the oranges cooking was amazing thoughout the house.
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06 Feb 2009 12:44 AEST
Cheryl
Northbridge WA
Jewish Orange and Almond Cake
Ingredients at the ready for the weekend cooking. Thinking of serving with Margaret River Yoghurt. Have found my other orange cakes (drizzled with syrup) just too sweet. Can't wait to try this.
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05 Feb 2009 09:52 AEST
Sharon Anderson
Balgownie
Orange and Almond Cake
All I have been thinking about since Wednesday evening is the Orange and Almond Cake. I have just printed the recipe and cannot wait to make it tomorrow.
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05 Feb 2009 09:33 AEST
Karin
Hornsby
Great recipe - maybe too moist!?!?!
Just made this this morning and it was yum - I only cooked it for an hour (180 Fan Forced) and it was VERY brown on top (skewer came out clean). I found it was really moist (maybe too moist?). But still delicious. There's a similar recipe on the Aust Women's Weekly archives (http://aww.ninemsn.com.au/ARTICLE.aspx?id=262282) which mentions trimming the ends off the boiled oranges, and discarding any pips. That recipe adds some plain flour, so might add that next time.
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05 Feb 2009 08:11 AEST
Mary
Ballarat
diabetic cake
It was the best recipe of the night. It looks really easy and boiling the oranges takes so little effort.
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05 Feb 2009 06:12 AEST
Joanie Lobb
Bendigo Vic
Just in time
I have a friend visiting from Uk next week and she's Jewish, and Ceoliac, the cake, yum and other recipes and just the knowledge of what's on and what's not as to what and how to cook for her is just in the nick of time I say.
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05 Feb 2009 05:14 AEST
christine newlyn
millicent sawhat a magnificent cake,am boiling the oranges as i type.still drooling,and so is hubby.
orange and almond cake
what a magnificent recipe,boiling the oranges as i type.still drooling and so is hubby. love the information about kosher food and can understand their passion for such lovely simple food. cheers
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