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Tunisian Orange Cake

Tunisian Orange Cake

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Learn how to prepare this delicious recipe with a step-by-step video tutorial.

Ingredients

- Orange : 1 large
- Caster Sugar : 300g
- Olive Oil : 75 ml
- Flour : 280g
- Baking Powder : 1 tbs
- Eggs : 4 large
- Vanilla Extract : 2 tsp

Instructions

1 - Preheat oven to 190 C / Gas 5.

2 - Grease a 23cm round springform tin.

3 - Cut off the hard bits from the top and bottom of the orange.

4 - Slice the orange and remove all seeds.

5 - Puree the orange with its peel in a food processor.

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6 - Add one third of the sugar and the olive oil and continue to mix until well combined.

7 - Sieve together flour and baking powder.

8 - Beat the eggs and the remaining sugar with an electric hand mixer for at least five minutes until very fluffy.

9 - Fold in half of the flour mixture, then the orange and the vanilla, then fold in the remaining flour.

10 - Mix well but not for too long.

11 - Pour cake mixture into prepared tin and smooth out.

12 - Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes.

13 - Reduce the oven temperature to 160 C / Gas 2 and bake again for 30 minutes Bake until the cake is golden brown and a skewer comes out clean.

14 - Cool on a wire cake rack.