Orange And Honey Loaf Cake
A loaf cake bursting with the sunny flavours of fresh oranges and honey.
Ingredients
- 200 g all-purpose flour
- 195 g almond meal
- 250 ml clear honey
- 1 egg, at room temperature, lightly beaten
- 30 g olive oil
- 2 tbsp orange zest
- 175 ml fresh orange juice
- 2½ tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp soda bicarbonate
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 100 g walnuts, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C, grease and line the base of a 9"x 5" loaf tin with baking parchment
- Whisk the flour, almond meal, salt, baking powder and soda bicarb in a bowl.
- In a larger, separate bowl, whisk together the egg, olive oil, honey and orange zest.
- Now gently fold in the flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the orange juice. Mix in the walnuts.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 60 minutes until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean without any wet batter.
- Cool the cake for 10 minutes in the pan before turning out on a wire rack to cool.