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whole orange cake
whole orange cake

WHOLE ORANGE CAKE - 3 INGREDIENTS

Whole Orange Cake is made only with 3 ingredients and a food processor and is incredibly easy and delicious!
Made with whole oranges, sweetened condensed milk and self rising flour (read the Tips below for substitutions and more infos), you just need to boil oranges to eliminate the bitter white skin taste, chope them, mix in the food processor with the other 2 ingredients and that's it!
A must try if you're an orange addicted because the orange taste is pretty intense, and the sweeteness is well balanced with sweetened condensed milk.
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Prep Time 8 mins
Cook Time 45 mins
Cook Oranges 1 hr 30 mins
Total Time 2 hrs 23 mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine Italian
Servings 9 Servings
Calories 144 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 2 (550 g-1 pound) organic oranges
  • 400 g (1+1/3 cups) sweetened condensed milk
  • 230 g (2 cups) self rising flour or add 12 g (3 tsp) of baking powder to 230 g (2 cups) of all purpose flour

Instructions
 

  • Bring to a boil some water and boil the whole oranges for about 90 minutes. You can boil them the day before.
  • Cut the whole boiled oranges in medium-small size pieces and place them into a food processor.
  • Add condensed milk and process until evenly puree and well combined.
  • Add self rising flour and process until well combine: don't over mix the flour, mix just as necessary to combine it.
  • Transfer the batter into a greased and lined 20x20 cm – 8x8 inch square cake pan and spread evenly.
  • Bake in preheated fan oven at 175°C-350°F for 45 minutes. Cover with aluminium foil if the cake top will brown too much. After 45 minutes a skewer will come out slightly moist in the center: the cake is done.
  • Remove from the oven and slightly cool down for 5 minutes.
  • Unmold and cool down the cake over a wire rack.
  • Dust with powdered sugar and serve it.

Video

Notes

Store at room temperature for about 2 days or in refrigerator for up to 1 week.

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Tips:

whole orange cake

For this recipe you need the whole oranges, but it’s important you boil your oranges before. One of the main reason to boil is that the white peel of orange is pretty bitter, thanks to boiling them you remove this bitterness and you get just pure orange flavor!  

So do not skip boiling your oranges or you can taste an unpleasant bitterness in the cake. You can also boil them the day before and store them in refrigerator before use them.

whole orange cake

To finely process the boiled oranges you can use a food processor, a blender or a hand blender, it doesn’t metter, you just get a creamy batter with small orange zest pieces, like small candied orange pieces. 

whole orange cake

I’ve used a self rising flour, but you can use normal all purpose flour, you just need to add about 3 tsp (12 g) of baking powder to the the 230 g (2 cups) of all purpose flour.