Orange And Almond Dessert Cake

Directions

1. Wash oranges, place in saucepan and cover with water. Simmer gantly for 2 hrs ir till very tender. Cold slightly, halve the oranges and throw away pips. Chop skin and pulp roughly the puree in a good processor. Beat the Large eggs till light coloured, add in remaining ingredients and blend throughly.
2. Pou into a buttered and floured tin [ about 22 CM] and bake in a preheated 190 degree C oven for about 1 hour or possibly till cake is golden brown and just hard to the touch. Leave in the tin till quite cool. Serve with whipped cream. I like to either simmer orange rind shreds in a sugar syrup and serve a small pile of those beside the cake and decorate with candied peel, together with a few orange segments marinated in a little syrup and sometimes with a good dash of Grand Marnier. Pass the cream separately.
3. NOTES : Based on a Spanish recipe, this dessert cake is very easily made.
4. Itcan be made forPassover, but if so, the baking pwdr must be omitted and the eggsseperated. The whites arewhipped stifly and folded in after the other ingredients are mixed.