Honey Cake With Oranges And Almonds

Recipe Ingredients

3		Eggs - separated
1/4 cup	49g / 1.7oz	Sugar
1 cup	237ml	Honey (orange blossom preferred) - warmed
		Until thin in a double boiler
3/4 cup	46g / 1.6oz	Flour
3/4 teaspoon	3.8ml	Dried yeast
3 tablespoons	45ml	Extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons	30ml	Aguardiente
		Powdered sugar
		Orange Salad
		Zest and segments of 4 navel oranges
		Juice of 1/2 lemon
20		Mint leaves - cut chiffonade
2 tablespoons	30ml	Blanched sliced almonds

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and oil an 8-inch cake pan.

Add sugar to yolks and beat to white ribbons. Add the honey to the egg yolk mixture and continue mixing. Mix the flour with the yeast. Add olive oil and aguardiente to egg mixture and slowly add flour-yeast combination, 1/4 cup at a time, to wet mixture.

Meanwhile, beat the egg whites to stiff peaks and fold into flour mixture. Pour batter into prepared cake pan and bake 35 to 45 minutes, until golden brown. Remove and allow to cool.

Mix the orange salad ingredients and let stand 10 minutes before serving. Dust cake with powdered sugar and serve with the orange salad.

This recipe yields 6 servings.

Source:
MEDITERRANEAN MARIO with Mario Batali - (Show # ME-1B10) - from the TV FOOD NETWORK

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