Food Category

Baby orange and almond cakes recipe

Created by Allan Campion and Michele Curtis

1 comments

Enlarge text

Rating:

4/ 5 stars 4 Votes

Cuisine: Modern Australian
Makes 18

Baby cakes are great for dessert as they can be cooked in advance, saving you the drama of any last-minute assembling. These cakes are superb after a Mediterranean-influenced meal as they’re rich, moist, and full of citrus flavour.

Ingredients

2 oranges
5 eggs
220g caster sugar
250g ground almonds
1tsp baking powder

View conversion table

Preparation

Line 18 x 125 ml (1/2 cup) muffin pans with paper cases.

Place the oranges in a small saucepan, cover with water and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for 30–40 minutes, or until the fruit is soft. Allow to cool, then cut into quarters and remove the pips. Purée in a food processor until smooth and thick. You should have at least 2 cups of orange purée.

Preheat oven to 180°C.

Beat the eggs and caster sugar for 5 minutes, until pale and doubled in bulk. Mix the almonds and baking powder together. Add the almond mixture and 2 cups of the orange purée to the beaten eggs and stir to incorporate completely.

Spoon the mixture into the prepared muffin pans and bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until light brown and firm in the centre. Test the cakes by inserting a skewer into one of them. If it comes out clean, they are ready; if it doesn’t, cook for a further 5 minutes and test again. Allow to cool on a wire rack.

If you enjoyed this Baby orange and almond cakes recipe then browse more Modern Australian recipes, dessert recipes, cake recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.

Modern Australian Restaurants

Displaying 10 of 594 Modern Australian Restaurants.

	Restaurant	Book Online	Suburb
1.	Valentino's		Northbridge
2.	Smithfield Tavern		Smithfield
3.	Benny's Bar & Cafe		Fremantle
4.	Arch Rival		Palmerston
5.	Stirling Hotel		Stirling
6.	Mahogany Inn		Mahogany Creek
7.	Morning Star Estate		Mt Eliza
8.	Anise		City
9.	Artespresso		Kingston
10.	The Boat House by the Lake		Barton

View all Modern Australian restaurants | Start a new search

Comments (1)

26 Aug 2010 01:38 AEST

Louise

Kent, UK

Delicious and easy

Made these after making the larger one so that I could share them with more people. Very easy to do and extemely delicious.

Agree(1 people agree)

Disagree(0 people disagree)

Comment on this recipe

PLEASE NOTE: All submitted comments become the property of SBS. We reserve the right to edit and/or amend submitted comments. HTML tags other than paragraph, line break, bold or italics will be removed from your comment.