Rustic Orange Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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10
ingredients
- 2 oranges
- 250 g ground almonds
- 250 g sugar
- 6 eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
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Icing
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1 tablespoon orange juice (fresh not canned)
- 1 tablespoon orange-flavored liqueur or 1 tablespoon citrus peel
- 1 teaspoon melted unsalted butter
directions
- Boil 2 oranges for 2 hours (this can be done the day before).
- Chop the oranges into small pieces taking out any pits.
- Put these into a food processor.
- Add eggs and beat.
- Then add ground almonds.
- Then sugar.
- And Baking Powder.
- Beat all these together in food processor.
- When mixed (keep an eye on the mix as it is a pretty full bowl) and stir occasionally to make sure it is all mixed.
- Oil a 9 inch (23 cms) spring form pan and pour the mixture in and bake in a 185-190c (about 350 degrees F) for 1 hour.
- check occasionally (depending on oven temperature as oven temps vary) and make sure the center is set.
- When cold make this icing and spread on cake.
- Icing-----------.
- Whisk all together over hot water till liquid.
- melts and is pourable.
- Serve as is or with whipped cream.
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Reviews
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I love this cake! The house smelled wonderful while I was boiling the oranges! It's very easy, has no flour (perfect for Passover), the only fat comes from the egg yolks and the almonds, and it's delicious. I made this for dessert last night and it got rave reviews from family and guests. I made my own simple icing from powdered sugar and orange juice. There's only one piece left and guess what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow morning!
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Well, no stars because I had very different experiences with the cake and the frosting. First, the good - the cake! It was delicious, fun to make, fun to talk about, and I am sure I'll make it again. Excellent for Passover. Very moist and orangey, and my company liked it alot, also. One cooking note - with my 11-cup food processor, I needed to do this in 2 batches, which was fine. Now, the bad - the icing. It siezed up into a hard sugar-mass immediately when I poured it on the cake, totally ruining the appearance. Fortunately, my company was good friends, and we ate it anyway, but the icing was hard/sugary, not frosting-y. I don't know enough about icing to know what went wrong, but I suspect more specific directions can avoid this disaster. The flavor was very good. I used Gran Marnier plus the zest, and subbed one teaspoon of lemon juice for 1 t. of the orange juice. (I can't imagine this accounted for my problem.) So, I definitely recommend you try this cake! Just with a different icing. I'll probably use powdered sugar with OJ, zest, and a bit of lemon juice.
Tweaks
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Well, no stars because I had very different experiences with the cake and the frosting. First, the good - the cake! It was delicious, fun to make, fun to talk about, and I am sure I'll make it again. Excellent for Passover. Very moist and orangey, and my company liked it alot, also. One cooking note - with my 11-cup food processor, I needed to do this in 2 batches, which was fine. Now, the bad - the icing. It siezed up into a hard sugar-mass immediately when I poured it on the cake, totally ruining the appearance. Fortunately, my company was good friends, and we ate it anyway, but the icing was hard/sugary, not frosting-y. I don't know enough about icing to know what went wrong, but I suspect more specific directions can avoid this disaster. The flavor was very good. I used Gran Marnier plus the zest, and subbed one teaspoon of lemon juice for 1 t. of the orange juice. (I can't imagine this accounted for my problem.) So, I definitely recommend you try this cake! Just with a different icing. I'll probably use powdered sugar with OJ, zest, and a bit of lemon juice.
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