Entertaining? Need something delicious, impressive, yet easy and foolproof to whip up. This is your cake. It takes only 15 minutes to prepare, then a quick syrup poured over the top. It makes an impressive dessert or is delicious in the afternoon with a cup of tea.
Ingredients
½ cup | Freshly squeezed orange juice, plus 2 tbsp of orange rind |
½ cup | Vegetable oil |
2 | Eggs |
2 Tbsp | Honey |
½ cup | Sugar |
1 ½ cups | Self raising flour |
½ cup | Ground almonds |
½ cup | Polenta (Main) |
Syrup
⅓ cup | Freshly squeezed orange juice |
⅓ cup | Sugar |
Directions
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius. Line and grease a 20cm round cake tin.
- In a large bowl whisk orange juice, rind, vegetable oil, eggs, honey and sugar together.
- Add flour, ground almonds and polenta. Quickly mix to form a thick batter.
- Pour batter into greased cake tin and smooth the top with the back of a wet spoon.
- Bake for 45 - 50 minutes, check by piercing with a skewer, that it comes out clean.
- Set aside to cool.
- Over a low heat, mix syrup ingredients, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes till thickened.
- Pierce the top of the cake with a skewer and drizzle the warm syrup over the cooled cake.
- Dust with icing sugar and serve with a big dollop of greek yogurt.