This orange cake is a real taste explosion! A spongy, spicy Moroccan-inspired orange cake with whole boiled oranges, almonds and wonderful spices. The Moroccan orange cake is gluten-free, fresh in taste, juicy, suitably sweet and with a bitter undertone. The recipe is easy to make and can be baked in a springform pan, frying pan or a frying pan.
The cake contains primarily oranges and almonds, and the two ingredients in combination taste really good! In addition, both ingredients give a wonderful consistency to the cake. Before serving, I sprinkle the cake with a little icing sugar because it decorates so nicely. Enjoy a delicious piece of cake for the coffee table or for dessert with vanilla ice cream. Or even more obvious, a good cup of mint tea.
The first time I made (addictive) acquaintance with a Moroccan orange cake was one afternoon at ‘Det Rene bread’, which is located in a few places here in #DXB, where we live. I fell in love with the taste, so now I have tried to make my version and developed a recipe that, at long last, sits right in the closet.
Easy recipe for Moroccan orange cake
The recipe is still simple to go for, although it requires a little preparation in the form of the orange to be cooked beforehand. But after the orange is cooked, it is blended into a puree, which must subsequently be stirred together with eggs, almond flour and other ingredients.
It is a recipe with few ingredients and you only need Orange, almonds, eggs, sugar, baking powder and cardamom. From there, you can develop further on what you want to get upstairs, such as syrup, icing or yoghurt cream.
The recipe corresponds to 4-6 people, but you can also double the amount and bake the cake in a baking pan, for example.
On the recipe for Moroccan orange cake here:
Ingredients
1 piece of orange
125 g almond Powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon crushed cardamom
3 eggs
100 g caster sugar
25 g unsalted butter
10 g icing sugar
Kitchen equipment
Blender
Elpisker
Food processor
Spring form, 20 cm
Notes
TIP: You can advantageously be in good time and cook the orange the day before use, so you do not have to wait for it to cool.
Prep:
- Put the whole washed orange in a saucepan and cover with cold water.
- Bring the water to a boil and let the orange cook for 1.5 hours until it is completely tender and a fork sticks easily through the peel. Let it cool and cut if necessary. the orange in quarters, then it goes faster
- Blend the orange to puree.
- Grind the almonds into flour (something can be a little coarse), and turn the almond flour with the baking powder and cardamom.
- Whisk the eggs fluffy and then turn in the sugar, orange puree and almond flour. Stir together until the mass is homogeneous.
- Grease your springform pan with butter and sprinkle the bottom and edge with sugar. Pour the dough into a springform pan of 20 cm and bake the cake for approx. 30 minutes at 170 ° hot air in the middle of the oven.
- Allow the dough to cool. Sprinkle with icing sugar.
Moroccan orange cake with whole oranges
For the cake, you need a whole pre-cooked orange, which is the main element in the cake – it helps to give the characteristic orange taste. It takes some time to cook the orange, but you can cook it the day before if you want to be in good time.
You can start the recipe for the orange cake the day before you have to serve it – it actually only makes the cake even better. It is, therefore, a perfect cake to bake if you get guests and want to end the evening with a good dessert.
TIP: Oranges are always really good in the winter months, so you get an extra delicious cake now. Eat a piece for dessert with vanilla ice cream or yoghurt cream, where you turn some Greek yoghurt up with vanilla sugar, a little orange peel and orange juice.
Juicy orange cake with almonds
The Moroccan orange cake gets a different consistency than most other cakes, due to the almonds – and the pureed orange, of course. There is no flour in the orange cake, so it is gluten-free but is still incredibly juicy and spongy.
The almonds give a bite to the orange cake and you can bake the cake with ready-made almond flour or blend the almonds yourself into flour. If you blend the almonds yourself, you can also adjust how coarse you want your cake. I like to blend half of the almonds just fine into flour and the other half a little coarser.
If you love the taste of orange in baked goods and cakes, you might also find my recipe for a healthy orange cake with chocolate exciting. Otherwise, I would recommend you my Easter cake, which is a layer cake layered with a white chocolate ganache with a taste of orange. Otherwise, I can recommend you make this lemon cake with lemon icing.