Desserts/ Sweets

Orange Cake – Kejk tal-Laring

Oranges are in season right now so we decided to make an orange cake. Really easy to make. Combined with yoghurt this is a perfect dessert!

Print Recipe

Orange Cake

(3 votes, average: 2.67 out of 5)
Loading...

Dessert

By MC

Prep Time: 20 minutes – Cooking Time: 50 minutes – Total Time: 1hour 10 minutes

Oranges are in season right now so we decided to make an orange cake. Really easy to make. Combined with yoghurt this is a perfect dessert!

Ingredients

50g breadcrumbs

200g sugar

100g ground almonds

1.5 tsp baking powder

200ml Golden Drop Sunflower Oil

4 eggs

Zest of 3 oranges

Zest of 1/2 a lemon

SYRUP

Juice of 3 oranges

Juice of 1/2 a lemon

75g suger

2 cloves

1 cinnamon stick

YOGHURT

Kolios Greek Yoghurt

Crushed pistachios

Grated dark chocolate

Maltese Honey

Instructions

1

Stir all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.

2

In a separate bowl whisk the oil, grated zest and eggs together and pour over the dry ingredients and beat them all together till smooth.

3

Pour the mixture into a 23cm well greased and base lined tin.

4

Put it into a cold oven, a bake it at 180C for 40minutes or until it is firm and golden and a skewer poked into the middle comes out clean.

5

THE SYRUP

6

Simmer syrup ingredients for 8 minutes or till thickened but still runny.

7

When the cake is cooked, remove it from the tin, pierce it all over with a skewer and gently spoon over syrup until it is all soaked up.

8

Serve accompanied with some greek yoghurt with crushed pistachios, grated chocolate and Maltese honey on top.