Blood Orange Cake Recipe

Blood Orange Cake Recipe

Blood oranges feel like the forgotten fruit yet they’re the jewels in the citrus world — so tasty, tangy, sweet and rich in vitamin C. They’re wonderful for the skin and offer unique health benefits. The combination of orange and lemon rinds makes this delicious cake especially zingy.

Makes: 1 cake

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Blood Orange Cake Recipe

By: Lee Holmes

The combination of orange and lemon rinds makes this delicious cake especially zingy!


Servings

1 cake

Prep time

Cook time

Recipe


Ingredients

  • 2 blood oranges (or other variety of sweet orange), tops removed & scored about 3cm deep
  • 6 eggs
  • 1½ cups xylitol
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 1½ cups almond meal
  • 3 tsp gluten-free baking powder
  • 2 tbsp poppy seeds
  • Zest 1 lemon (optional)
  • Tiny pinch Celtic sea salt

Method


  • Place oranges in saucepan of water and boil for 45 mins.
  • Preheat oven to 160°C.
  • Place oranges in food processor and puree whole oranges, including skin
  • In large mixing bowl, whisk eggs, xylitol and vanilla until light and fluffy.
  • Add almond meal and baking powder and stir.
  • Add orange puree, poppy seeds and lemon zest to mixture and combine with wooden spoon.
  • Spoon mixture into baking tin and bake for 40 mins.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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