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| Almond Cake |
Ingredients:
- 250 g almond meal
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- pinch salt
- 3/4 cup olive oil
- 3 egg whites
- grated peel from two oranges
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 190C. Line a 21 cm spring form tin with greaseproof paper and grease with butter.
2. Place egg whites into one bowl and whole eggs in the other. Using an electric, whisk, beat egg whites until they form stiff peaks. Set aside.
3. Add sugar to the other bowl with the whole eggs and beat until mixture thickens.
4. Grate orange peel into the bowl. Add almond meal, baking powder, salt then the orange juice and the olive oil. Fold in the beaten egg whites into this mixture.
5. Pour mixture into the prepared tin and bake for half an hour.
6. Remove from the oven and cool, on a rack. When cake is cold, remove it from the tin.
7. Serve with icing sugar dusted on top of the cake.
