Spanish Orange Cake (gluten free)
Just 4 ingredients:
2 or 3 large sweet oranges
9oz sugar
6 eggs, separated
8oz ground almonds
*Place whole oranges into large pan of cold water, bring to boil gently, then simmer for 2 hours, drain and leave to cool for at least 30 minutes.
*Remove pips (but nothing else) from the cooled oranges, before putting the chunks into the food processor.
*Add the sugar and egg yolks and ground almonds… and blend the lot.
*Spoon the resulting orange mixture into a large bowl.
*whisk the egg whites until stiff but not dry and gradually fold into the orange mixture.
*Spoon the whole thing into the prepared cake tin and bake for 1 - 1.5 hours until just firm to touch.
EDIT: leave to cool and dust with icing sugar (or not) … serve with creme fraiche (or not)
23cm 9inch cake tin, greased and base-lined
Oven: 170C/325F/ Gas 3
(For chocolate/orange replace 1 oz of almonds with 1 oz of cocoa powder)
This cake is not suitable for freezing…
there are many recipe versions of this nowadays… this one dates back to Michael Cox who sent it in to the Sainsbury co… a lifetime ago… and I saved the recipe page (amongst a hundred others)