Serious Orange Cake

Name: Serious Orange Cake
Yield: Serves 8-10
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 1 orange, weighing about 150g, washed well and diced, with pips removed; 3 x 60 g eggs; 200 g sugar; 1 tablespoon caster sugar; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; 1-2 tablespoons Cointreau; a small pinch of salt; 150 g self-raising flour, sifted; 60 ml orange juice; 180 g butter, melted and cooled a little

Preparation info

Serves
8-10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

French

By Damien Pignolet

Published 2005

About

Some years ago I attended a fund-raising concert for the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the organisers provided afternoon tea, including this delicious cake. I persuaded them to part with the recipe, and christened it ‘Serious Orange Cake’.

Ingredients

1 orange, weighing about 150g, washed well and diced, with pips removed
200 g sugar
3 x 60 g

Oceania
Europe
Australia
France
Cake
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C. Grease and line a 24cm diameter springform cake tin with baking paper.
Place the diced orange in the bowl of a food processor with the sugar and process until very smooth. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well between addit