Orange Almond Cake

Delicious orange muffin with almonds. Intense orange aroma and rich taste.

Summary

Ingredients

• Eggs – 4 pcs.
• Sugar – 220 g
• Vanilla pod – 1 pc.
• Flour – 150 g
• Baking powder for dough – 0.5 sachets
• Ground almonds – 100 g
• Butter – 150 g
• Zest of 0.5 lemon
• For syrup:
• Sugar – 5 tbsp
• Orange juice – 250 ml
• Peel of 3 oranges

Instructions

1. It is advisable to take all products for muffins at room temperature.
2. Beat eggs, sugar and vanilla pulp for 5-8 minutes, until the mass triples. Add lemon zest while whipping.
3. Melt the butter and cool slightly.
4. Mix flour with baking powder, salt and ground almonds. Pour this mixture into the egg in several steps, mix gently.
5. Add melted butter, mix gently, but thoroughly, until smooth.
6. Pour the mass into a mold and bake the cake with almonds at 180C. See for yourself in time, I baked for 50 minutes. Check readiness with a toothpick. The baking time also depends on the form in which you bake.
7. Remove the zest from the oranges and cut into thin strips. Juice the oranges.
8. When the cake is almost ready, you can cook the syrup. Pour the juice into a small saucepan, add sugar and zest. Simmer until sugar dissolves. Bring to a boil, cook for 5 minutes, turn off.
9. Pour syrup over the still hot cake and sprinkle with zest. I made many holes in it with a toothpick and poured the syrup right into the mold. sugar took 5 tbsp
10. There is a lot of syrup, but the cake absorbs everything, you can safely pour in the whole thing!
11. The color of the orange-almond cake is so dark, because I used muscovado instead of the usual sugar, it also added richness in the taste.
12. Finally, the soaked orange muffin must be allowed to sit for a while so that it is well saturated with the orange flavor.