Overview:
By: Amy Willcock
Meal Type: Dessert
Cook time: 2 Hours
Servings: 1 Large cake
A wonderfully light and zesty sponge recipe, gifted by Amy Willcock from her book 'AGA Cooking'. Baked by Blake & Bull community member Clare!
Ingredients:
- 2 Oranges (preferably Organic) Clare used blood oranges
- 6 Free range eggs
- 175g Caster sugar
- 225g Ground Almonds
- 1 tsp Baking powder
You may need...
- Cake tin
- Cold shelf for use with Aga range cooker
- A tin to store it in (if it lasts that long!)
Method:
- Place the oranges in a saucepan of water and heat to boiling point on the boiling plate {hot 8 setting on one of our converted 'eCook' ('eC') reconditioned Aga range cookers} Then transfer the pan to the simmering oven for 1 hour. Then drain and process the oranges in a food processor - skin and all - until pureed
- Line a 20cm round cake tin with deep sides with Bake-O-Glide. If you are using a cake baker, pre-heat it in the roasting oven while you mix together the cake ingredients.
- Whisk the eggs and sugar until meringue like in an electric mixer, then fold in the rest of the ingredients and mix well. Pour into a prepared cake tin and cook for 50-60 minutes in the cake baker on the floor of the roasting oven, OR in a regular cake tin on the fourth set of runners of the baking oven. Cool and serve with Whipped cream and a citrus sorbet.
- Conventional cooking or when you can set the temperature of your Aga range cooker - Pre-Heat the oven to 190℃/375℉/gas5 and bake as above in tin.
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