Tunisian Orange Cake recipe
Ingredients
300g Caster sugar
6 eggs
150g ground almonds
250 ml sunflower oil
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100g bread crumbs
2 teaspoons baking powder
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Zest of one lemon and one orange
Sugar Syrup
Juice of one lemon and one orange
1 cinnamon stick
75g caster sugar
12 cloves
Method
Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Break eggs into a jug and whisk gently with the sunflower oil.
Pour the sloppy egg mixture into the dry ingredients and stir well.
Transfer the cake mixture into a greased and lined 9” cake tin and bake
for around 40 minutes at 180° (fan 170) /gas mark 4.
For the syrup
Whilst the cake is baking, combine all the ingredients for the sugar syrup in a pan. Bring to the boil and then reduce to a simmer for 4 minutes.
When the cake is ready, pierce it several times and pour the spiced syrup over the top.
Leave to cool, if you can wait that long.
