This cake prepared from cooked oranges is incredibly moist with a slight bitterness that's a welcome change in a cake. It like it served warm, accompanied with a thick Greek-style yoghurt.

Ingredients

• 2 large oranges, unpeeled
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3 cups ground almonds
• about ¼ cup icing sugar to dust

Method

1. Place the unpeeled oranges into a saucepan. Cover with water and simmer for 1 hour. Drain and leave until thoroughly cold.
2. Preheat the oven to 180ºC. Grease and line a 23cm cake tin with baking paper.
3. Cut the cooked oranges into quarters, remove the pips and place in a food processor fitted with a metal blade. Process until finely chopped. Add the eggs, sugar and lemon juice and process for 1 minute.
4. Add the baking powder and ground almonds and pulse only to mix. Do not over-process.
5. Pour into the prepared cake tin.
6. Bake in the preheated oven for 50-60 minutes until golden in colour and a cake skewer inserted comes out clean.
7. Stand in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a cake rack to cool.
8. Sift over a thick layer of icing sugar. Heat 2-3 metal skewers over a gas flame and when red hot, drag through the icing sugar to make toffee stripes or a diamond pattern.

Cooks Tips

- Ground almonds, also known as almond meal, should be kept in the freezer like other nuts to prevent them becoming rancid. - Sweet navel oranges are delicious in this recipe.