FULL RECIPE:
Time: 2.5 hours (don’t worry, most of it is baking or simmering the orange, so you can put your feet up and take in the wonderful aromas!)
Difficulty: 6/10 - this one’s easy beezy 😉
Serves: 12 hungry bees ready for afternoon tea!
Ingredients:
- 2 medium oranges (approximately 200g each)
- 6 eggs
- 175g honey
- 200g ground almonds
- 120g plain flour (or a gluten free flour blend, such as chickpea flour, would also work)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1/2 pinch of salt
Equipment:
- One 20 cm (8 inch) wide cake tin
- Baking parchment
Method:
- Place the whole oranges into a saucepan, cover them with water and bring to boil.
- Once boiling, reduce to a simmer and cook for 1-2 hours until completely soft.
- Drain the oranges and slice them in half to remove any large obvious pips, then place the whole orange (skin and all) into a food processor and blitz until smooth.
- Now preheat the oven to 180°C (gas mark 4) and lightly grease a 20cm round tin (8 inches) and line the base with baking parchment.
-To the food processor, add the wet ingredients (eggs, honey, vanilla) and blitz until smooth. Yes, you can lick the spoon, bees!
- Put the wet mixture to the side and get out a large mixing bowl
- Add in your dry ingredients (ground almonds, flour, baking powder and salt) and mix
- Add your wet ingredients to your dry and whisk until smooth (if you have a large enough food processor you could just add all ingredients here and mix until smooth)
- Pour the mixture into your prepared cake tin, (*using a spatula to make sure you don’t miss any!)!
- Bake in the oven for 60-70 mins, until a knife comes out clean. Chef Bee suggests covering your cake with tin foil after 30 minutes to prevent the top from burning.
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
- Once cool, gently remove the cake from the tin and decorate with an extra drizzle of honey and a handful of freshly grated orange peel
- Enjoy with a dollop of yoghurt (drizzled with another dash of honey of course)!
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Happy Baking!
25 сен 2019
