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Orange Cake with Honeyed Yoghurt

This Orange Cake Honeyed Yogurt is low in fat and light, flavor honey cake that is delicious to eat.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Greece
Keyword: honey, yogurt
Servings: 8

Ingredients

  • cup self-raising flour
  • 1 cup almond meal
  • 1 cup fine semolina
  • cup caster sugar
  • 150g cold unsalted butter
  • 1 tbsp finely grated orange rind
  • cup orange juice
  • 3 eggs
  • cup milk
  • cup flaked almonds
  • Icing sugar for dusting

For the syrup

  • ¼ cup caster sugar
  • ½ cup water
  • 2 tbsp orange juice

For the honeyed yogurt

  • 2 tbsp Greek honey
  • 1 cup thick Greek yogurt

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180° C.
  • Use a spring-form pan with baking paper and spray some oil.
  • Mix together the almond meal, semolina, flour, sugar and butter until you get a solid mixture and add the orange juice, eggs, orange rind, and milk.
  • Mix well and then transfer the prepared mixture into the baking pan and smoother the surface then spread on top the almond flakes.
  • Place it in the oven and bake it for at least 1 hour or until it is cooked.
  • Place a small pan with water and bring it to boiling then add the sugar and orange juice.
  • Mix together until you the sugar dissolves.
  • Make lots of holes in the baked cake then slowly pour the syrup over the cake and leave it aside for 10 minutes.
  • Serve warm with icing sugar top and yogurt with drizzled honey over.