Herbies Spices Recipes
Orange Almond Ambrosia Cake
Description
This is a large, rich, moist and sweet cake. It makes a good dessert with orange slices and cream or vanilla yoghurt, or can be served simply with a cup of tea.
Ingredients
At a glance
Baking & Sweet Things
Serves
12
6 eggs, separated
330g caster sugar
zest of 2 oranges
200g almond meal
75g sifted plain flour
3 teaspoons Herbie’s Spices Fragrant Sweet Spices
½ cup orange juice
Methods/steps
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Preheat oven to 170ºC.
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Grease a 23cm spring-form pan and dust with flour.
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In an electric mixer, cream egg yolks and sugar. Add orange zest, then fold in almond meal, flour and spice. Gently stir in orange juice.
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Beat egg whites until soft peaks form and fold into mixture until thoroughly blended.
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Pour into the prepared cake tin and bake for 70 minutes.
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Cool and serve.
Additional Tips
This is the perfect cake for freezing, it thaws flawlessly.
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