Soaked orange biscuit cake with plum compote

AUTHOR
Diane Archer
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3 4
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 6 Eggs (size M)
  • 265 g Sugar
  • 2 packages Vanillin sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 125 g crushed almonds
  • 100 g Flour
  • 45 g Cornstarch
  • 50 g flaked almonds
  • 2 (approx. 260 g) small organic oranges
  • 75 ml Orange liqueur
  • 600 g Plums
  • 1 Cinnamon stick
  • 350 ml Cherry nectar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Grease
  • 7-10 Tbsp Aluminium foil

Directions

  1. 1

    Separate eggs. Beat the egg whites and 3 tablespoons of cold water with the whisk of the hand mixer until stiff, adding 175 g sugar, 1 packet of vanilla sugar and salt. Beat the egg yolks one after the other. Mix ground almonds, flour and 30 g starch and carefully fold into the egg foam mixture. Grease a springform pan (28 cm Ø). Fill in the sponge mixture, smooth it down and sprinkle with almond flakes. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 30 minutes (test with sticks)

  2. 2

    Wash the oranges, grate them dry, peel the skin of 1 orange thinly. Halve the oranges and squeeze the juice. Heat orange juice with 50 g sugar in a small pot and boil down to half. Remove the pan from the heat, let it cool down a little and stir in the orange liqueur

  3. 3

    Take the cake out of the oven. Prick the cake several times with a wooden skewer. spread orange syrup on the cake and let it cool down

  4. 4

    Wash, halve and stone the plums. Caramelise 40 g sugar and 1 packet of vanilla sugar in a frying pan, add orange zest and cinnamon stick. Deglaze with cherry nectar and let it boil down at medium heat for about 5 minutes. Mix 15 g starch with some cold water and thicken the stock with it, bring to the boil again. Add the plums and simmer for about 1 minute. Remove from the heat and allow to cool

  5. 5

    Take the cake out of the tin, cut it into pieces and serve the stewed plums preferably still lukewarm. Whipped cream also tastes good with it

  6. 6

    waiting time 1-2 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
340 kcal
CARBS
46 g
FATS
11 g
PROTEINS
8 g

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