Almond cake with caramelised mandarins

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Almond cake with caramelised mandarins

Recipe by Marianna Leivaditaki
Servings

6-8

servings
Prep time

20

minutes
Cooking time

50

minutes
Total time

1

hour 

10

minutes

Ingredients

  • 3 juicy & aromatic mandarins

  • 50g butter

  • 2tbsp caster sugar

  • 175g unsalted butter, softened

  • 225g caster sugar

  • 200g ground almonds

  • 3 large eggs

  • Zest of 4 whole lemons and juice of 1

  • 115g polenta

  • 1 tsp. baking powder

  • Pinch of salt

Directions

  • Preheat the oven to 325F/160C/gas mark 3. Line an 8” (20cm) tin with baking parchment.
  • Put all the ingredients in a food processor and whizz to a smooth batter.
  • Spoon into the lined tin and bake for 45-50 minutes, until a skewer pushed into the centre comes out with no uncooked batter on it.
  • Cool in the tin.

Notes

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  • Add to the recipe some dried bay leaf that has been blitzed up to a powder, also cut the amount of Orange by half. I made a syrup by boiling water and bay leaves and then adding sugar and honey to taste, I need put holes in the cake with a tooth pick and spooned some of the syrup over the cake whilst hot.