Ingredients

• 2 large oranges
• butter
• for greasing
• plain flour (or gluten-free flour
• if required)
• for dusting
• 6 free-range eggs
• 250g/9oz ground almonds
• 250g/9oz caster sugar
• 1 tbsp baking powder (gluten-free
• if required)

Directions

• Wash the oranges thoroughly. Bring them to the boil in a large saucepan of water and gently cook for two hours.
• Preheat the oven to 175C/325F/Gas 3 and butter and flour a 23cm/9in cake tin.
• Leave the oranges to cool
• before slicing in quarters and removing the pips.
• Pulp the oranges in a food processor.
• Beat the eggs and gradually stir in all the remaining ingredients
• including the orange pulp. Pour into the cake tin and cook for about an hour
• until the cake is golden in colour and has risen.
• Transfer to a wire cooling rack
• keeping the cake in the tin. When the cake has cooled
• carefully remove from the tin and serve cut into slices.