Hello, everyone!
In most cases I share with you either my own recipes or the ones I have checked earlier, but I think this is a time for a new rubric – first time recipe. In this rubric, I will choose (or you can send me your idea) a recipe that i have never used before and make it together with you. If it works fine, you can without doubts use. If it doesn’t work, I will share with you my results, assumptions and recommendations how to make it work. I will do it once per month for now and will be looking forward to hearing from you recipes you want me to check.
Today’s choice is – an orange cake. I had at home couple of oranges that i didn’t want to throw away, so why not bake something. The recipe I have found looked very simple to me and didn’t require that many ingredients. However, I needed to cut ingredients by half since I didn’t have enough oranges.
My ingredients:
- Oranges – 1 large or 2-3 small
- Almond flour – 115 g
- Sugar – 115 g
- Eggs – 3 medium or 150-160 g
- Baking powder – 1/2 teaspoon
- Flour – 1 tbs for covering the baking form
Step 1. Cook the oranges
I found it very interesting and haven’t tried earlier this technique. Wash your oranges, put them unpeeled in casserole and add water enough to cover the oranges and set them to simmer for 2 hours. Then take them out on the plate to cool down. I personally didn’t want to wait for a long time, so I decided to cut oranges into pieces like on the picture and let them cool down. After they called down, check whether there are any seeds and remove if they are. Use any food processor you have to make a pure from the unpeeled oranges. I’ve got lucky because my oranges were not that juicy, so my pure looked like the one on the picture (if you would have more runny pure – I would recommend to put it in the casserole or over the sieve to reduce amount of liquid). I have made 250 g of pure that was used later.
Simmer oranges for 2 hours 
Cooked oranges 
Cut to cool down faster 
Make a pure 
Use 250 g of orange pure
Step 2. Make a batter
Set you oven to preheat at 160 degrees Celsius. Then, whip 3 eggs by hand or any other kitchen machine/stand mixer/food process with sugar until they increased in size, became white and fluffy (if you turn your bowl they should stay unmoved – soft picks). Then add orange pure and mix it in (by hand or machine), when orange pure is mixed in, add almond flour (sieve it) and baking powder. Mix it in carefully and you should get a consistency similar to the one in the picture. Our batter is ready, let’s prepare the baking form.
While eggs 
Add sugar and keep whipping 
Whipped eggs with sugar 
Add orange pure 
Mixed in orange pure 
Sieve in baking powder 
Sieve in almond flour 
Ready batter
Step 3. Prepare the baking form and fill it with the batter
I used big one (26 cm in diameter), but take a small one like 16 cm. Apply fat first inside the form and then cover it with a flour, until you get it as sown below. Fill the form with batter (you can use spoon for that) evenly distributed in the form.
My form appeared to be too big 
Fat the form 
Cover it with flour 
Form is ready 
Distribute butter evenly
Step 4. Bake the orange cake
When oven is ready, set form in in the middle and bake cake for about 40-45 minutes at 160 degrees Celsius. The cake is ready when a wooden side of a match is coming clean and dry from the cake.
After baking for 40 minutes check if cake ready with a match 
Dry and clean? Then cake is ready
Step 5. Cool cake down before eating
When the cake is ready, take it from the oven and wait for 5 minutes before taking the cake out of the baking form. In five minutes, put it on the plate, board or baking grate to cool completely down. That’s all – really simple.
