Flourless orange cake

Name: Flourless orange cake
Yield: Serves 6-8
Ingredients: 2 medium oranges; 120 g caster sugar; 3 eggs, separated; ½ tsp baking powder; 150 g ground almonds

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mark Hix on Baking

By Mark Hix

Published 2012

About

This is a pretty easy, delicate and very moist cake, which gets demolished in no time when I make it and is great for anyone with a wheat intolerance. Serve as an afternoon or anytime tea cake, or as a dessert with caramelised oranges and ice cream or crème fraîche.

Ingredients

2 medium oranges
3 eggs, separated
120 g caster sugar

Method

Place the clean, whole and unpeeled oranges in a pan with enough water to cover. Bring to the boil, cover with a lid and simmer for about 1½ hours or until soft, adding more water if necessary. (You can do this in a pressure cooker in half the time — just half cover the fruit with water.) Drain the oranges and cut into quarters, discarding any major pips. Put the orange pieces, including peel,