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Easy Orange and Poppyseed Cake

Easy Orange and Poppyseed Cake Recipe
The Dairy Kitchen recipe collection
Recipe By: 
The Dairy Kitchen
dairy.com.au [1]
Prep Time: 
15 minutes
Cook Time: 
1 hour
Serves: 
dinner party (8-10)

Easy Orange and Poppyseed Cake

Ingredients

  • 1 large orange, roughly chopped
  • 125g Australian butter, melted
  • 1 1/2 cups almond meal
  • 3/4 cup castor sugar
  • 1/2 cup poppy seeds
  • 3 eggs
  • Pure icing sugar, for dusting
  • Pure cream, for serving


Method

  1. Process orange in a food processor until pureed. Add remaining ingredients and process until smooth
  2. Pour mixture into a baking paper lined 20cm cake pan and bake at 180°C for 45-50 minutes or until golden and a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the centre of the cake. Stand for 5 minutes before turning out onto a cake cooling rack
  3. Make the sticky orange syrup
  4. Drizzle warm syrup over cake and decorate with sticky orange rind, serve thin slices dolloped with pure cream


Sticky Orange Syrup

Ingredients

  • 1 orange
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1/2 cup white sugar


Method

  1. Peel rind from orange into long straight segments, finely julienne rind
  2. Combine sugar and water in a saucepan, stir over low heat until sugar dissolves, add orange rind and bring to the boil, simmer for 10 minutes until syrupy and orange rind is translucent


Tips & Hints

  1. This cake does not rise much and is very dense and moist in texture, this cakes keeps well for a few days, stored in an airtight container

Links
[1] http://dairy.com.au