Simple, with almond flour, carrots, yogurt, delicious or vegan. How do you prefer the orange cake?
There Orange cake is the ideal cake for the Breakfast of the whole family, but if enriched and decorated with care can also turn into a delicious dessert to be served after a meal.
Preparing it is really very easy because the base is that of a simple cake to snack, but they exist many variations that can make this cake more or less soft, more or less wet, more or less caloric.
We can remove the eggs, use different flours, replace the butter with oil and add the yogurt or ricotta in the dough.
In short, this is really one versatile recipe!
The classic recipe of orange cake
First of all, grate the peel of two oranges not treated avoiding reaching the white part.
Take it too 180 g of juice filter it if necessary.
Separately mounted three whole eggs with 150 g of sugar and then add 80 g of soft butter, 270 g of 00 flour sifted with a sachet of yeast and then the peel and orange juice.
Mix with one hand whisk or inside a planetary and then pour the mixture into a buttered and floured cake tin or lined with parchment paper.
Cook the cake at 180 ° for about 35 minutes. Take the toothpick test to check the cooking.
Once cold sprinkle with icing sugar.
With almond flour
You can make the same cake using a part of almond flour.
The proportion is 200 g of 00 flour and 70-80 of almond flour.
The cake will be more moist and tasty.
With carrots
The cake orange and carrots It is perfect for children because it is good and healthy, rich in vitamins and fruit.
To prepare it, just add it to the mixture two grated and well-squeezed carrots to eliminate excess water.
Also in this case you will get a more moist consistency and a sweeter taste.
Very greedy children? Some chocolate drop and you will make them happy.
With yogurt
If you want to prepare a really easy cake, the ideal recipe is always that of the Cake 7 Jars that can be adapted by adding many ingredients, such as orange, for example.
125g yogurt jars are used as measuring cups: just beat three eggs with a jar of citrus yoghurt and two of sugar and mix everything with three jars of flour, half seed oil and a bag of yeast.
Then add to this mixture the juice and zest of an orange and cook a 180 ° for 30 minutes.
You can also make the same cake with ricotta using the 200-250 g basket as a dispenser. The proportions are always the same, but the dough will be more abundant.
With caramelized oranges
How to make a cake so simple? Just add some Caramellised Oranges.
You have two ways to do it.
You can caramelize the oranges cut into thin slices by baking them with sugar directly in the pan on the stove.
When they are caramelized, let them cool down a little and then pour the mixture over it to cook it all together in the oven.
Once the cake is ready, turn it on a serving plate so that the oranges will be on the surface.
The alternative is to prepare the oranges by caramelizing them with sugar and a little 'Grand Marnier and then arrange them on the cake at the end of cooking with their warm icing.
The greedy version
You can stuff the orange cake as you want because the taste is so delicate that it is fine with jams of all kinds, hazelnut cream, custard, cream and much more.
You can even turn it into a birthday cake cutting it in half and stuffing it with cream and fruit and covering everything with whipped cream.
Vegan version
To prepare the orange cake without milk, butter and eggs just sift 300 g of flour 1 with a packet of baking powder for vegan desserts and 150 g of finely chopped cane sugar.
Then add 200 ml of water, 200 ml of orange juice, 100 ml of seed oil and grated orange peel.
You can also scent the dessert with a little cinnamon powder and add some dried fruit grains in the dough.
Bake and cook at 180 degrees for 35 minutes.
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