This soft orange almond cake is having a moment. Not surprisingly, it’s quite a charmer with its sweet orange flavours nestled in a soft fluffy almond batter.
We are making magic with simple ingredients as the surge for baking tea time treats is so irresistible especially in our home.
Dusted with icing sugar, it looks so pretty like the snow veiled on our patio.
For me, there’s nothing better than a simple soft tea cake. Casual, but imbued with flavour and taste. This one comes without the obligatory butter cream frosting, merely a sweet dusting of icing sugar.
If you’re on the sweeter side, you could do the orange syrup glaze, but for me, this was just perfect!
I’m not the ‘too sweet’ kinda gal, this type of cake is totally my kinda jam.
I seek cakes that are slathered with thick frosting when I’m enjoying a celebratory event. For tea time, this will do, always!
Just the right amount of sweetness from the oranges and the earthiness from the almonds, this cake is sure to become your favourite too.
Let’s bake.. shall we? 🙂
The Softest Orange Almond Tea Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup AP flour
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup butter or 1 stick butter
- 1/2 cup castor sugar
- 2 eggs
- Zest of an orange
- 1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
- 3 tbs thick plain yogurt
- Almond slices (for sprinkling)
- Icing sugar (for dusting)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius.
- Grease a baking pan and line with parchmentpaper if you prefer. (I didn’t)
- Sift all of the dry ingredients into a clean bowl and keep aside.
- Beat the butter and sugar with a handheld mixer.
- Slowly incorporate the eggs
- Lastly add in the orange zest and juice and mix well together.
- Now fold the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and finally stir the yoghurt through the batter
- Pour the batter into the greased dish and sprinkle with sliced almonds. Bake for 25 minutes or until a cake skewer comes out clean when poked into the centre of the cake.
- Allow the cake to cool before slicing and then dust with icing sugar.
