Easter orange cake Such an interesting cake baked in the Jewish area of Rome for Easter. The recipe is taken from an old book of forgotten recipes. Recipe is very interesting set of ingredients, the composition of the test does not include neither flour, nor butter, nor milk. It's a pleasure to cook such a cake. The sunny fruits of oranges lift the mood with their fragrance and color. According to the recipe, you need to boil the whole oranges, so choose a variety that the fruits are pitted (although, they can not be removed). I bake this cake for the second time, everybody liked it, I think I will use this recipe more than once. The cake is very elegant and unusually tasty. Cook, I think that you will be interested!
Ingredients:- Almond 250 g
- Sugar 200g
- Orange 3 pcs.
- Eggs of chicken 4 pcs.
- Baking powder 1 tsp.
- Vanillin 2 g
- Salt 2 g
- Liqueur Orange 20 ml
- Confiture Apricot 5 tsp.
- Orange 3 pcs.
- Confectionery powder 3 g
- Step 1 To make a cake, you need to take almonds, oranges, eggs, baking powder, vanillin, sugar, salt; to decorate and cover the cake to take oranges (you will need only peel), liqueur, apricot confiture.
- Step 2 Oranges thoroughly wash with a brush, put into a saucepan, pour cold water. Cook for 35-40 minutes.
- Step 3 In the meantime, prepare almonds. Nuts to wash, fry in a frying pan, grind in a blender with salt. Turn on the oven for heating up to 180 ° C and prepare the form - the bottom is lined with parchment paper.
- Step 4 Finished oranges to remove, cool, cut into slices, remove the bones.
- Step 5 Grind in a blender.
- Step 6 Mix the nuts with orange mass, add 100 g of sugar (you can less).
- Step 7 Eggs - to separate the proteins from the yolks. Rinse the yolks with sugar 100 g.
- Step 8 Yolks with sugar add to the orange with nuts mass. Mix well.
- Step 9 Squirrels beat until firm peaks.
- Step 10 Very carefully insert whipped proteins into the dough, mixing them with a spoon from the bottom to the top. The mass will be light and airy.
- Step 11 At the end, add a baking powder neatly.
- Step 12 Put the dough into the prepared form. Put in a hot oven. Bake for 45 minutes at 180 ° C. Then turn off the oven and leave the cake in it for another 10 minutes.
- Step 13 Take out the cake. Cool in the form. A wooden spatula to hold in a circle and only then unfasten the fastening of the side of the mold (gentle tender cake is obtained).
- Step 14 While the cake is cooling down, make a paste of confiture and liqueur. Mix, slightly warming up.
- Step 15 Put the cooled cake on a flat dish and grease the top and sides with a prepared confiture. Leave the cake for impregnation for 20-30 minutes. In the meantime, you can make an ornament for the cake - roses from the peel of oranges. Sharp knife to clean oranges with a single stripe. Lay a strip of peel in the shape of a flower.
- Step 16 Decorate the cake with confectionery powder and flowers from orange peel. Serve the cake for tea for dessert.