Moroccan Orange and almond cake

Flourless Orange and Almond Cake is a classic Maimouna dessert drawing on the Moroccan traditions where citrus is more available.

Ingredients

2 oranges
6 eggs
250g caster sugar
250g almond meal
1tsp baking powder
Extra caster sugar for dusting before baking
Icing sugar for dusting after baking
Margarine or oil spray (for greasing the pan)

Preparation

Wash oranges and place unpeeled, in a pot of boiling water for 2 hours. Drain the water and allow the oranges to cool. This can be done ahead of time.

Preheat oven to 190°C.

Break 6 eggs into a mixing bowl or blender. Add caster sugar and beat or blend together.
Place the two oranges into the egg mix. Break up the oranges and then blend together to a smooth consistency. Add the almond meal and baking powder and blend.

Grease a 20 cm spring form baking pan with margarine (or vegetable oil spray) and dust with caster sugar.

Pour batter into the pan and sprinkle caster sugar on top and bake for 1 hour to an hour and a half or until the top is golden brown.

Dust with icing sugar to serve.

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[potocatepetl]

@mnam26 Use just organic oranges if you intend to eat the peel. The regular ones are pumped with chemicals and covered with wax so they look healty for a longer time.

[waileongchong]

Thanks... but I bake them with bundt pan. Very hard to take out until torn off. However, I going to bake again tomorrow.

[Rubyred2200]

Hey does Food Safari knows your using their video, just asking.

[cheryl7davis]

Whoops...forgot to say...I switched the sugar for splenda & lined the pan with twice the amount of grease proof & even attached a round disc to the top with paper clips....also placed a pan of water on the shelf underneath the cake shelf....& it WORKED.(I have a fan assisted oven so this helped keep the cake moist.) Really looking forward to trying it with our family in couple of days (if I can wait that long!)

I have worked out if you are on Atkins then one twelfth of cake is equal to 5-6 carbs

[cheryl7davis]

Today is the day! I just made the cake and the aromor Mmm it smells yummy :) Will post again when it has cooled down and I have tasted it....Mmmm the smell is making me salivate!!!

[cheryl7davis]

I am on the Atkins diet...but... I am going to try this using a sweetener in place of the sugar, even though oranges are not really permitted!

But I think that because the oranges have been boiled for two hours the sugar content will be some what reduced or minimal! (I hope! :D)

Does anyone know if the sugar content reduces when the fruit is boiled for so long?

[playerofdeath]

just had a try with it, the cake was very fine instead of coarse and it wasnt moist.. Looks like i screwed up somewhere..

[bakerboy1234]

Mmmh nice cake, made it myself. If somebody finds it to bitter, serve a slice with some whipped cream, works wonders against bitterness!

[hotboyclarence]

any measurements for the ingredients? for how long in the owen?

[hotboyclarence]

@mnam26 of course. where do you think the orange marmalade come from? in fact, the peel and the seeds are some of the healthiest things you can eat. but since they are bitter, you need prepare them--in a marmalade or cake