Orange Polenta Cake

Portions:8
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Ingredients

  • 10 regular or blood oranges
  • 250 g runny honey
  • 3 large eggs
  • 200 g ground almonds
  • 100 g fine polenta

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/gas 3.
  • Rub a 20cm springform cake tin with olive oil, then line the base with greaseproof paper and rub the paper with oil, too.
  • Squeeze the juice of 3 oranges (roughly 100ml) into a pan, add 100g of honey and simmer until thickened and reduced, then remove from the heat.
  • Meanwhile, in a free-standing mixer on a high speed, whisk 200ml of olive oil with the remaining 150g of honey for 2 minutes to combine.
  • Beat in the eggs for 2 minutes, while you finely grate and add the zest of 3 oranges.
  • Stop the mixer, then fold in the ground almonds, polenta, and the juice of 1 or 2 oranges (roughly 50ml).
  • Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 40 to 50 minutes, or until golden and cooked through.
  • Leave to cool for 10 minutes in the tin, loosening with a palette knife before releasing – be gentle with it.
  • To serve, quickly peel and slice the remaining oranges and dish up alongside the cake, drizzling the pretty syrup over everything before tucking in.
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Course Cake / Fruit