A Delicious cake to Celebrate the year gone by - Tunisian Orange and Almond Cake

Name: A Delicious cake to Celebrate the year gone by - Tunisian Orange and Almond Cake
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 45 gms breadcrumbs bread bread white - 2 slices-preferably a day old; 200 grams Castor sugar; 100 grams Ground Almonds; 1 1/2 tsps Baking Powder; 200 ml Vegetable Oil Refined; 4 Eggs; 1 tsp Orange essence; 2 tsps Orange Zest; syrup For the; 1/2 cup Orange Juice Fresh (I used fresh Indian oranges); 2 - 3 tbsps Sugar; 1 Cinnamon stick '

Gauri Shirke @cook_7836379

Mantri Tranquil, Kanakpura, Bangalore

“Another fresh new year is here.
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!”
By - Willaim Arthur Ward
Another year goes by in a blink of an eye, 2012 was a wonderful year for me, there were small but significant changes in my life which I am very happy about. The aim for the coming year to build on these small changes to realize my goals in lifeJ
There are many more thoughts that I want to share with you all, but I will pen those in my post next year, for now I wanted to end 2012 on a Sweet Note n Positive Note, especially because I have not been able to get Nirbhaya / Damini out of my mind for the last several days. May her soul Rest in Peace and we continue to fight for her justice.
Since late November I have noticed truckloads of Indian oranges everywhere in Bangalore; I always pick them up when my stock at home is over, I either enjoy them fresh or in salads, but today I wanted to bake something. I love the sweet orangy aroma in baked good… ahhh that smell just makes me hungrier. At first my choice was an orange chiffon cake, but then I came stumbled upon this recipe and knew at once I had to try it. I made some minor changes (please read the tips below) and the result was sensational. I loved th...

Gauri Shirke @cook_7836379

Mantri Tranquil, Kanakpura, Bangalore

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Ingredients

45 gmsbreadcrumbs bread bread white - 2 slices-preferably a day old
200 gramsCastor sugar
100 gramsGround Almonds
1 1/2 tspsBaking Powder
200 mlVegetable Oil Refined
4Eggs
1 tspOrange essence
2 tspsOrange Zest
syrup For the
1/2 cupOrange Juice Fresh (I used fresh Indian oranges)
2 - 3 tbspsSugar
1Cinnamon stick '

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Steps

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Take a large bowl; add to it the breadcrumbs, caster sugar, ground almonds and baking powder.
2

In another bowl add the vegetable oil, 4 eggs, orange essence and the orange zest. Use a spatula to mix all the ingredients till they well blended. I dint use my electric beater, mixing with a spatula/ spoon or and non electric hand blender was good enough!
3

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and fold the mix. See that there are no lumps in the cake batter.
4

Pre-heat the oven at 190 degree celsius
5

Grease an 8 inch tin and pour the cake batter in the tin.
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Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, or until a skewer placed into the center of the cake comes out clean.
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Set the cake aside to cool, in the meanwhile make the orange syrup to pour on the cake.
8

Take a heavy bottom pan, add to it the orange juice,sugar, cloves and cinnamon. Bring it to the boil and simmer, stirring constantly for two - three minutes. Allow it to cool slightly.
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Now take the cooled cake and put it in a dish, using a skewer, poke little holes all over your cake. Next pour the syrup all over the cake, making sure to evenly soak the entire cake.
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Serve warm or at room temperature!