Orange almond cake
Orange almond cake recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- Olive oil to prepare pan
- 1 cup whole blanched almonds, toasted
- 1 cup all-purpose, bleached flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 4 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- Rind of 1 orange, finely grated
- 1/2 cup fresh, strained orange juice
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- Orange juice soak:
- 1/2 cup strained orange juice
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Adjust rack to the middle level.
- Wipe or spray a 9 inch springform pan with olive oil.
- In a food processor, grind toasted almonds into a fine meal.
- In a bowl, whisk them together with flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat eggs at medium speed until they become foamy, then slowly add sugar and beat until thick and lemon colored.
- On low speed, add flour-nut mix, then add orange rind, orange juice and olive oil, blending just until mixed.
- Scrape the batter with a rubber spatula into prepared pan and level top.
- Bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until a skewer plunged in middle comes out clean and cake begins to pull away from sides of pan.
- Cool in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes, then turn out on a rack to cool completely.
- When cool, transfer to a serving plate right side up.
- Mix together the 1/2 cup orange juice and 1/4 cup sugar.
- Poke holes with a fork over top of cake and slowly pour on orange juice soak, then serve.
- Covered tightly with plastic wrap, the cake will keep well for up to three days at room temperature.
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