for 16 pieces

Cake mixture

300 g	white flour
300 g	sugar
200 g	ground almonds
2 tsp	baking powder
2 pinch	salt

4	egg
150 g	butter, soft
1	organic orange, grated zest and juice (approx. 100 ml)
100 g	candied orange peel

Icing

200 g	icing sugar
½	organic orange, 2 tbsp juice
50 g	hazelnut, coarsely chopped, toasted

How it's done

Cake mixture

In a bowl, mix the flour with all the other ingredients up to and including the salt.

Mix in the eggs and all the other ingredients up to and including the candied orange peel. Transfer the cake mixture to the prepared tin.

To bake

Approx. 70 mins. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 180°C. Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly, remove from the tin and leave to cool completely on a rack.

Icing

Whisk together the icing sugar and orange juice, spread the icing over the cake, sprinkle with the nuts, leave to dry.

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