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Tunisian Orange Cake

Tunisian Orange Cake

A weekend Tunisian dessert. Ready in about 1 hour 9 minutes. Difficulty: more effort.

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 4 people +

Recipe makes 4

Fresh & other

  • 1 orange
  • 11 oz superfine sugar Shopping tip: Superfine sugar (UK: caster). Regular sugar works.
  • 10 oz flour
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • 4 eggs

Sauces & oils

  • ¼ cup + 1 tbsp olive oil
Spices & seasonings (1): vanilla extract
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

  1. Turn the oven on to 375°F.

  2. Grease a 9 inches round springform tin.

  3. Cut off your hard bits from the top plus bottom of the orange.

  4. Slice the orange.

  5. Remove all seeds.

  6. Puree your orange using its peel in a food processor.

  7. Add one third of your sugar plus the olive oil and continue to mix till well mixed.

  8. Sieve together flour and baking powder.

  9. Beat the eggs and the rest of the sugar using electric hand mixer for at least five min until very fluffy.

  10. Fold in half of the flour mixture.

  11. The orange and the vanilla.

  12. Fold in the remaining flour.

  13. Mix well but not for too long.

  14. Pour cake mix into prepared tin and smooth out.

  15. Bake in heat the oven for 20 minutes.

  16. Reduce oven temperature to 325°F.

  17. Cook in the oven again for 30 min Bake until the cake is golden and a skewer comes out clean.

  18. Cool on a wire cake rack.

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Recipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.