These dairy free almond orange cakes are delicious and quick to bake. It is soft and spongy with the lovely fragrance of ground almond and orange.
Author Ann Low
Prep Time 15 minutesmins
Cook Time 25 minutesmins
Total Time 40 minutesmins
Servings 9small cakes
Ingredients
90gcake flour - sifted
1tbspcorn flour (corn starch) - sifted
50gground almond - almond meal
1orange zest
90gcaster sugar
1tspvanilla extract
60mlorange juice
60mlcorn oil
1large egg
75gegg whites - from 2 egg whites
icing sugar or snow powder - to dust
Instructions
Preheat oven to 180°C. Line muffin pans with 9 paper cases. Combine cake flour, corn flour, almond meal, orange zest and sugar in a large bowl, mix well. Add the vanilla, orange juice , oil and whole egg. Stir until just combined and set aside.
Whisk the egg whites until soft peaks form. Fold the egg whites into flour mixture with a rubber spatula.
Fill the paper cases with the mixture to 3/4 full, then top with some raisins (or almond flakes). Bake for about 25-30 minutes till lightly golden or skewer inserted into cake comes out dry.
Cool completely. Serve dusted with the icing sugar or snow powder before serving.