Ingredients Checklist
- 3 blood oranges, thinly sliced
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup water
CAKE MIXTURE
- 200g unsalted butter
- 200g caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups blanched almond meal
- ½ cup self-raising flour
- ½ cup Greek style yoghurt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 160C. Line the base of a 25cm cake tin with baking paper.
- In a frying pan, place water and sugar, and stir on low to medium heat until melted. Increase heat, add blood orange slices, simmer for 10-15 minutes. Allow to cool.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition. Stir in almond meal, flour and yogurt then mix until just combined.
- Arrange orange slices in a decorative circular pattern in the base of the lined cake tin. Reserve any remaining syrup.
- Spoon cake batter into cake tin then gently spread out taking care not to move orange slices.
- Bake in preheated oven for 50 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool for 5-10 minutes in the tin.
- Run a knife around the edge of the cake and gently upturn onto a serving plate, remove baking paper.
- Drizzle any reserved syrup over the oranges or serve on the side with yoghurt or cream.
