Italian Orange Almond Cake
Italian Orange Almond Cake

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have italian orange almond cake using 9 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Italian Orange Almond Cake:
  1. Make ready 1 box or can, almond paste (7-8 ounce quantity) They've recently changed the packaging.
  2. Get 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
  3. Take 1 cup sugar
  4. Make ready 2 tbsp Orange liquor - ie, Grand Marnier or Cointreau
  5. Take 1 grated zest of a whole orange
  6. Get 5 large eggs, room temperature
  7. Make ready 1/2 cup presifted flour, or cake flour
  8. Take 1 tsp baking powder
  9. Make ready 2 tbsp or more, confectioners sugar for dusting

This orange and almond cake doesn't get an orangey flavour from a little zest. It actually uses a boiled orange to provide not only the essence of orange, but Prepare a cake tin - ideally with a loose base - by rubbing it with butter and then dusting it with flour. Food writer and passionate home cook Silvia Colloca feels most Italian when she is in her kitchen. Orange Almond Cake. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.

Instructions to make Italian Orange Almond Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 325° while preparing recipe. Make sure rack is in middle of oven.
  2. Generously butter and flour a 9" cake pan or a 9" spring form pan. Set aside. (Not on top of oven.)
  3. It is absolutely necessary that the butter and eggs are at room temperature. Don't heat butter to soften.
  4. Break up almond paste by placing it into a food processor, or using an electric mini chopster. Process until it is grainy like the texture of small course grains. Set aside.
  5. In a large bowl using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar together until fluffy for 3 minutes.
  6. Add orange liquor, orange zest (HINT: sprinkle the zest across, do not add in one lump) and almond paste. Beat until perfectly blended for 3 minutes.
  7. One by one add in eggs incorporating each separately until each egg is completely blended. Then beat for 3 minutes until mixture is very smooth and fluffy. HINT: break eggs into small glass bowl to make sure there are no egg shell fragments.
  8. Sprinkle on flour and baking powder mix by hand until blended then beat for 1 minute.
  9. Scrape batter into prepared pan and place in middle of rack.
  10. Bake for 55 minutes exactly. No more, no less.
  11. Here's the hard part! DO NOT OPEN OVEN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! RESIST ALL TEMPTATION TO CHECK ON CAKE. If you have a window, check that way. Towards the end of cook time you may think it's burning but it's not.
  12. Remove from oven to wire rack and cool for 15 minutes. Cake will have already slightly pulled away from sides and center could deflate a bit.
  13. After 15 minutes if using a spring form, remove outer ring. If using a cake pan, turn cake upside down onto a plate then invert back onto the wire rack.
  14. Allow the cake to cool completely. You can refrigerate the cake over night. DO NOT wrap in saran/plastic wrap. Lightly wrap in wax paper. Allow cake to come to room temperature before dusting with powdered sugar.
  15. Before dusting with powdered sugar consider using, or making, a stencil to create a beautiful design. It will make them think you got the cake from a bakery.

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