Christmas cake with orange and almonds
A delicious moist cake with the finest flavours of Christmas. A Christmas cake with muscovado sugar, orange, almonds, yellow raisins and candied orange peel.
Ingredients
120 g butter, room temperature
190 g Dansukker Light Muscovado Sugar
3 g Dansukker Vanilla Sugar
2 eggs
100 g yogurt
the peel of 1 orange
40 g orange juice
150 g wheat flour
150 g ground almonds
10 g baking powder
3 g salt
60 g yellow raisins
60 g candied orange peel
Garnish
flaked almonds
Dansukker Icing Sugar
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 175°C on the top and bottom heat setting.
Beat the butter, muscovado sugar and vanilla sugar until fluffy. Add one egg at a time while whisking, then add yogurt, orange zest and orange juice.
Mix wheat flour, almond flour, baking powder and salt and fold into the batter. Stir until smooth. Finally fold in the raisins and candied orange peel.
Grease a springform tin, approx. 20 cm in diameter, and sprinkle the flaked almonds in the bottom. Pour in the batter and sprinkle flaked almonds on top of the cake.
Bake on a low shelf in the oven for 50-55 minutes. When finished it should not come out sticky. Leave to cool completely.
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