Orange Upside-Down Almond Cake
Orange Upside-Down Almond Cake
Servings: 8
Ingredients
Cake
- Four eggs
- 1 cup superfine sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup self-rising flour
- 2/3 cup of butter, melted
- 1 cup almond meal
Sticky Orange Topping
- 1 cup superfine sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 vanilla Bean split and seed scraped
- 2 oranges very thinly sliced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 320°F.
- To make the topping, place the sugar, water and the vanilla in a 10-cup, nonstick, oven-proof frying pan over medium heat. Stir until the sugar is dissolved.
- Add the oranges and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes or until the oranges are soft. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Place eggs, sugar and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer and whisk for 8 to 10 minutes or until the mixture is thick, pale and tripled in volume.
- Sift the flour over the egg mixture and fold through. Fold through the butter and almond meal. Pour the mixture over the oranges carefully.
- Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until cooked when tested with a wooden skewer.
- Turn out by flipping onto an inverted platter to serve. Serves eight.