Gluten Free Orange Almond Cake

This delicious whole orange almond cake is moist, sweet, tart, and bursting with citrus flavour from the oranges. This recipe is Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Refined Sugar-Free and Paleo-friendly.

This whole orange almond cake uses only a handful of ingredients and is so easy to make.

I'm all for easy desserts and cakes. This orange almond cake recipe really is easy. It's not often you can just pop all of the ingredients for a cake in a food processor and be done with it, but with this one you actually can. No need for extra bowls, whisks or other baking tools.

This recipe uses whole oranges, rind, and all, which give this almond cake its delicious zesty citrus flavour and adds to its lovely texture.

Ingredient Tips

Oranges

You will need 2 medium-sized oranges, I have made this cake with naval oranges, blood oranges and a mix of both. All variations come out well although the flavour will differ slightly.

As the entire orange is going into the cake look for oranges with unblemished skins that appear to be firm, plump and juicy, as the whole orange is going into the cake all of these factors can also affect the end taste.

Sweeteners

I used a blend of coconut sugar and maple syrup, this is the combination I found works the best. You could replace coconut sugar with rapadura sugar or standard sugar.

Almond Meal

You will need to ensure you use almond meal/ground almonds for this cake and not almond flour.

Step by Step Instructions

• Place your two oranges in a large saucepan. Fill with water so that the water covers the oranges. Bring to a boil and then simmer on low heat for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• While the oranges are cooking preheat your oven to 160°C/320°F (140°C fan).
• Drain the water from the oranges. When they are cool enough to handle (or remove gently in between two utensils, you want to keep them intact so the juice stays in them) roughly chop them, skins and all, discard any pips that you see.

• Place the chopped oranges into your food processor and blitz the oranges for about 30 seconds until you have a semi-smooth pulp.
• Place the eggs, lemon juice, almond meal, baking soda, maple syrup and sugar in the food processor. Blitz until everything is combined and you have a semi-smooth batter. There still will be tiny bits of orange and orange zest that you can see, this is fine.

• Pour into a prepared cake tin. Decorate with sliced oranges, desiccated coconut and sliced almonds. Drizzle maple syrup over the top of the cake.

• Bake for 50-60 minutes. Test with a skewer, it should come out clean with a couple of crumbs. Allow the orange cake to cool completely before removing it from the cake tin.

What to serve with:

This orange almond cake goes really well with a dollop of greek or coconut yoghurt or vanilla or coconut ice cream. It also is delicious just as it is!

Additional Recipe Tips

• A food processor is an easiest and fastest way to make this cake. A high-speed blender could work too, it needs to have strong enough blades to chop the oranges and skins into a pulp.
• Ensure the oranges are sliced thinly to decorate or you could decorate with orange zest and a dusting of icing sugar.
• I used a 23cm/ 9inch cake tin.

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Have a lovely week!

Hope