Orange and almond cake

AUTHOR
Shirley Vincent
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 2
COOK TIME
40 mins
TOTAL TIME
40 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 2 untreated oranges
  • 4 Eggs (size M)
  • 80 g Sugar
  • 1 TABLESPOON Orange marmalade
  • 200 g ground almond kernels without skin
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Cornstarch
  • 1 TEASPOON Baking Powder
  • 2-3 TABLESPOONS Orange liqueur
  • 1-2 TABLESPOONS Icing sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Grease
  • 7-10 Tbsp Aluminium foil

Directions

  1. 1

    Wash oranges hot and rub dry. From 1/2 orange with a julienne chewer, tighten the peel spirally. Rub off the remaining peel. Cut oranges in half and squeeze the juice. Let the orange juice boil down to half in a small pot

  2. 2

    Separate eggs. Briefly whisk 40 g sugar and egg yolks with the whisk of the hand mixer. Stir in jam, orange juice and zest. Beat the egg whites until stiff, then add 40 g sugar. Mix almonds, starch and baking powder. First fold in beaten egg whites, then almonds

  3. 3

    Grease the bottom of a springform pan (22 cm Ø). Pour in the mixture and bake in a preheated oven (electric range: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 25-30 minutes. If the surface becomes too dark, cover with aluminium foil

  4. 4

    Remove the cake from the oven, remove from the edge and spread with liqueur. Dust the cake with icing sugar before serving and decorate with the orange spiral

  5. 5

    Waiting time approx. 1 hour

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
190 kcal
CARBS
15 g
FATS
11 g
PROTEINS
6 g

Categories & Tags

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