A dessert dish from the Tunisian kitchen.
Ingredients
- 1 large Orange
- 300g Caster Sugar
- 75 ml Olive Oil
- 280g Flour
- 1 tbs Baking Powder
- 4 large Eggs
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
Method
- Preheat oven to 190 C / Gas 5. Grease a 23cm round springform tin. Cut off the hard bits from the top and bottom of the orange. Slice the orange and remove all seeds. Puree the orange with its peel in a food processor. Add one third of the sugar and the olive oil and continue to mix until well combined. Sieve together flour and baking powder. Beat the eggs and the remaining sugar with an electric hand mixer for at least five minutes until very fluffy. Fold in half of the flour mixture, then the orange and the vanilla, then fold in the remaining flour. Mix well but not for too long. Pour cake mixture into prepared tin and smooth out. Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 160 C / Gas 2 and bake again for 30 minutes Bake until the cake is golden brown and a skewer comes out clean. Cool on a wire cake rack.
Source
This recipe is adapted from TheMealDB (id 52970), a free community-curated recipe API. Original listing: themealdb.com.
A walkthrough video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUxg866Ea4.
Original source noted by the contributor: http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/16067/tunisian-orange-cake.aspx.
Estimated by AI from the ingredient list. Values are approximate and not medical advice. If you have specific dietary requirements, verify with a registered dietitian or trusted nutrition database.
Keep reading
More from our library.
Nordic sourdough rye bread
A whole-grain rye loaf with an open, springy crumb, 24 hours of cold fermentation does most of the work.
ReadRoasted carrots with cultured butter and herbs
Honest, fast, and hard to get wrong, the kind of side dish that makes people ask what you did to the carrots.
ReadSkyr panna cotta with honey
Silkier than yogurt, lighter than cream. Icelandic skyr held together with a whisper of gelatin.
Read