This delicious cake was brought into our kitchen by the lovely Jean Cox when she attended our Spanish Tapas cookery class. It was a delightful surprise which I shared with the entire class with a nice cup of tea after lunch, a rare treat indeed – Thank you Jean. I thought the cake was excellent and a relatively easy recipe, so I thought I’d share it with you all.
Ingredients:
50g Plain flour
225g caster sugar
250g Ground Almonds
250g butter – room temperature
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp grated orange zest
4 free range eggs
80 ml Freshly squeezed orange
60g brown sugar
1 tbsp marmalade
Handful of sliced almonds toasted
Cooking Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 180º C/gas mark 4 and butter a 20cm cake tin.
- Sift the flour, baking powder and caster sugar, and add the ground almonds.
- Whisk the butter and orange zest together in a bowl until pale, and then add the eggs one at a time.
- Fold in the dry ingredients with a metal spoon, then pour the mixture into the buttered cake tin.
- Fold in the dry ingredients with a metal spoon, then pour the mixture into the buttered cake tin.
- Bake for 45 minutes or until cooked.
To make the Syrup
- Make the syrup by boiling the orange juice and brown sugar together in a pan until slightly reduced. Take off the heat and leave to cool.
- Once the cake is cooled, prick several times with a skewer to the base and pour on the cooled syrup.
- Leave the cake to cool completely before brushing on a little marmalade and sprinkling it with a few toasted, sliced almonds.
This cake is lovely served with orange segments marinated in a generous splash of whisky and a little demerara sugar.
This recipe originates from Michel-Roux-Jr. Image taken from Michel-Roux

Kumud Gandhi is a Nutritional Food Scientist bestselling Author, Broadcaster, and Keynote Speaker on the subject of nutritional health for productivity & performance in the workplace. In 2010 Kumud founded ‘The Cooking Academy’ a cookery school that focusses on cooking for nutritional health and wellbeing. Kumud regularly presents to international audiences on a variety of topics such as ‘Eating for Immunity and a Lifetime of Wellness’. She is an expert in the field of Wellness in the Workplace and works with organizations to create transformational change in employee health & well-being through nutrition and health coaching.
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