Orange Rind Cake Recipes

WHOLE ORANGE CAKE - FLOURLESS

Steps:

• Boil 10 minutes: Place oranges in a pot and cover with cold water. Bring to the boil over medium high heat. Boil for 10 minutes and drain.
• Repeat x 2: Put oranges back in the pot, cover with cold water and boil again for 10 minutes. Drain, then repeat once more (ie. boil oranges 3 x 10 minutes). Shortcut: Boil 40 minutes without draining, keeping an eye on water level. (Note 4)
• Chop: Rinse oranges, then cool slightly so you can handle them. Slice into 1cm / 1/4" slices then dice, removing any seeds. Cool completely.
• Preheat oven: Preheat oven to 160°C/320°F (140°C fan). Grease and line a 23cm/9" cake pan with baking/parchment paper. (Note 5)
• Blitz oranges: Place chopped oranges in a food processor (Note 6). Blitz on high for 4 x 10 second bursts, scraping down the sides in between, until it's pureed into a marmalade consistency with only a few visible bits of rind remaining. It does not need to be completely smooth.
• Blitz in remaining ingredients: Add almond meal, eggs, baking powder and sugar. Blitz for 5 - 10 seconds on high until combined.
• Bake 60 minutes: Pour into prepared cake pans. Bake 60 minutes until the surface is golden and a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.
• Cool: Cool fully in cake pan. Unless using loose base pan, cover surface with baking paper to help you turn it out (cake is sticky so may stick to your hand and tear surface otherwise.)
• Serve: Decorate as desired - I used slices of fresh oranges, rind strips and sprigs of flowers. A dusting of icing sugar / powdered sugar is also lovely. Cut, then serve! See Note 7 for suggestions.

ORANGE RIND CAKE

Steps:

• Put raisins, nuts and zest through a grinder.
• Set aside.
• Cream butter with sugar; stir in eggs and buttermilk, mixing well.
• Add soda, flour and ground mixture.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured bundt pan.
• Bake in a 350 oven 45 to 60 minutes.
• Dust with confectioners sugar.

CAMPFIRE ORANGE RIND CAKE

Steps:

• Prepare the oranges by cutting off one end. Save the parts cut off for later. Remove the pulp from the oranges, but leave the rinds intacts!
• Make the cake batter with the cake mix, eggs, oil, and water. Stir well.
• Pour the cake batter in the orange rinds, about 1/2 full. Put the tops of the oranges back on the orange. Wrap the oranges in aluminum foil.
• Lay the wrapped oranges into the hot coals from a campfire. Cook for about an hour or until the cakes are cooked through.
• Enjoy Eating out of the orange rind!

ORANGE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the orange juice, water, orange peel and almond extract. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well. , Pour into a greased 8-in. square baking dish. Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove to a wire rack to cool completely. , For the frosting, combine the confectioners' sugar, butter and enough orange juice to achieve spreading consistency. Frost cake.

VICTORIAN ORANGE PEEL CAKE RECIPE - (3.9/5)

Steps:

• Grind orange peel and raisins together three times or place in food processor and chip fine. Preheat oven to 325° Cream sugar and butter. Add eggs and buttermilk; mix thoroughly. Sift together flour, salt, baking soda and stir into batter. Mix in ground peel and raisins with walnuts. Pour into well greased 9 or 10 inch springform or tube pan. Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until cake tests done. Do not use bundt pan – cakes gets too brown. Syrup: Heat orange juice, sugar and rum together until sugar is dissolved. When cake is done let stand 10 minutes (no longer) and remove from pan. Reinvert and slowly pour juice mix over cake. Allow to stand overnight, or even better, several days. Store at room temperature if to be eaten in a few days; in refrigerator if longer. Makes 8 to 10 large or 20 small servings.