Orange Almond Cake


ingredients
Cake
  • 125g margarine
  • 1 orange, rind of
  • ½ cup caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 125g almond meal
  • 2 tbs poppy seeds (optional)
  • 1 cup Orgran self-raising flour
  • ½ cup So Good Regular soy milk
Orange Syrup
  • 1 cup orange juice
  • ½ cup sugar
method
  1. 11. Place margarine, rind and sugar in a bowl and mix until light and creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until combined.
  2. 22. Stir through almond meal and poppy seeds. Stir in ½ the flour with ¼ cup of So Good, then add the remaining flour and So Good.
  3. 33. Spread mixture into a greased and lined 20cm round tin. Bake in a moderate oven, 180°C, for 40 minutes.
  4. 44. Combine syrup ingredients in a saucepan. Stir over low-heat until sugar is dissolved, then increase heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove cake from oven; insert a few holes in the cake with skewer. Pour hot syrup over hot cake. Cool cake in tin.