No flour orange and mixed nuts cake

No flour orange and mixed nut cake

This is a cake made with no flour, making it suitable for people on gluten free diets. It's a good source of healthy fats and fiber from the mixed nuts and whole oranges.

Ingredients (12 portions)

• 2 large oranges
• 5 eggs
• 1 1/4 cups (250 g) caster sugar
• 2 1/2 cups (250 g) ground nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, caju nuts)
• 1 teaspoon gluten-free baking powder

Nutrition information per portion (90 g):
​250 Kcal | 12 g fat | 1.9 g saturated fat | 30 g Carbohydrates | 21 g sugar | 7 g protein | 4 g fiber

Method

1. Preheat oven to 170°C. Line the base of cake pan.
2. Place the two whole oranges in a saucepan and cover with water. Bring to the boil and simmer, covered, for 1 hour, ensuring that the oranges remain covered with water. Drain and cool. Chop the oranges into quarters, discard any seeds, then place the chunks into a blender and puree until smooth.
3. Beat the eggs with the sugar until thick, then add the orange puree, ground mixed nuts and baking powder and mix well.
4. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour. Leave the cake to firm up in the pan for 20 minutes then turn out, remove the baking paper and turn over to finish cooling right way up.
5. Decorate with orange slices and whole nuts.

​Enjoy :)