RECIPE

Ingredients

2 large mandarin oranges

6 eggs, 55g each

250g almond meal

250g caster sugar

5g baking powder

Method:

1. In a saucepan, boil the mandarin oranges in plenty of water for one hour.

2. Remove the fruit and leave to cool.

3. Preheat oven to 180 deg C. Grease and line a 22-cm round springform pan.

4. Cut the mandarins into large chunks and place into a food processor. Blitz until they turn into a smooth puree. Remove and set aside.

5. In a clean bowl, whisk the eggs with the sugar until the mixture is fluffy and has trebled in volume.

6. Gently fold the mandarin puree, almond meal and baking powder into the egg mixture.

7. Pour the cake mixture into the pan.

8. Place in the oven and bake for about 40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Cool in pan for a short while, then remove and leave to cool on wire racks.

9. To serve, garnish with segmented mandarins if desired.

Makes one cake