Orange Cake

Saw this recipe on ST "Mind Your Body" so tried it out! Orange cake, one of my favourite! Heehee... This recipe is easy & do not require any butter, healthy cake huh! Top with some icing sugar to add some taste! ;)

Looks wet even the top & sides had dried up n crunchy huh! Think is my initial beating of eggs w sugar! Coz using 6 eggs with 230gm of sugar so took some time in beating the mixture to light & fluffy! Maybe is that part wrong or maybe is the folding in of flour & orange puree coz the egg mixture is too much which reaching the brim of the mixing bowl.

Comments for the cake: Overall nice after toasting but can be less sweet!

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Orange Cake Recipe (Quoted: from Straits Times)

Ingredients:
3 medium-size oranges
230g sugar
6 eggs
140g cake flour
100g ground almond
1 heaped tsp baking powder

Method:
1. Wash the oranges before boiling them whole for around 20mins. When cool, puree them in a blender, orange peel and all.
2. Beat the eggs & sugar together until the sugar is dissolved and the mixture is light & fluffy.
3. Sift the flour & baking powder together and fold this inti the beaten egg mixture along with the ground almonds. Gently mix in the blended oranges.
4. Pour into a lightly greased cake tin and bake in oven for about 1 hr at a temperature of 180C.
5. Test whether the cake is cooked by inserting a knife or skewer - if wet, cake mixture clings to skewer, then bake a little longer.
6. Dust top with icing sugar & serve.

My comments on the bake:
1. I used self-raising flour to substitute w the cake flour & baking powder coz I ran out of cake flour at home. Tot the cake will raised after baking so I only pour into the tin 1/2 full. But dun understand y my cake din raised? Looks like orange shortcake instead?????!!!!!

2. Recipe calls for 6 eggs w 230g sugar so it took me quite a while to beat till light & fluffy and when done, the mixture is already at the brim of the mixing bowl! So it's quite difficult to fold in the flour, almonds & the blended oranges. Guess when I finished all the mixing & pour into the baking tins, most of the blended oranges already sink to the bottom of the mixing bowl. So think 2nd tin got more of the blended oranges.