Flourless Orange Cake

Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 2 hrs 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 2 oranges, large-size, thin-skinned, preferably seedless
• 1 1/2 cups ground almonds
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Recipe

• 1 scrub the fruit well. place in a pot, cover with water, bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer, cover and simmer for 2 hours, checking every once in a while to make sure the water hasn't boiled off too much.
• 2 drain and when cool enough to handle, cut the fruit in half carefully, and remove all of the seeds (otherwise the cake will be bitter).
• 3 preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius. grease and flour, or line with baking paper, a 9 ½ or 10-inch spring form pan.
• 4 put the fruit, skin and all, in a food processor fitted with the steel blade and puree. measure out 1-1/4 cups.
• 5 beat the eggs with the sugar and baking powder at medium-high speed until thick and lemon-coloured. add the ground almonds and mix well. mix in the pulped orange at low speed, in two or three additions, beating for 20 seconds after each addition.
• 6 pour into the prepared pan. bake for 1 hour, until firm and a knife comes out clean. if the top begins to get too brown halfway through, cover loosely with foil.
• 7 options instead of oranges: 350g cumquats or 3 meyer lemons or 6 mandarins.