This recipe comes from the collectable recipe cards published by Mester Kiado kft. To my knowledge, this collection is not any more available. I do not know what the new collectible is like, but I like this one very much. These recipes vary in difficulty but also possible to prepare as they are obviously tried and tested. (Sometimes it screams from the recipe that it was just made up but never tested). Well, this orange cake is just enough fussy to make the cook feel that they're preparing a festive cake. I saw it as a traditional Xmas sweet at some of my acquaintances, and since it's the season for it maybe you will be glad to have this recipe.
Ingredients
4 eggs
dash of salt
one tbsp grated orange peel
150 gr + 75 gr + 250g sugar
100 gr flour
2 bags of vanilla pudding powder
5 dl orange juice
3.75 dl heavy cream
4 seedless oranges
2 tsp baking powder
Preparation
For the base, make a foamy mixture of egg yolks, 150 g sugar, salt, orange peel and 3 tbsp of hot water. Mix the flour with one bag of pudding powder and the baking powder. Blend it with the egg-mixture. Beat the egg whites till you get hard mousse. Carefully mix it in the batter. Pour the batter into a 24 cm cake-pan and preheat oven to 200 oC (3-4 gas grade). Bake the batter in about 35 minutes.
For the cream, mix a bit of orange juice with 75 g sugar and the other bag of pudding powder. Add the rest of the orange juice and cook it until it gets creamy. Cool the cream by putting the bowl into another bowl with icy water, stirring constantly. Make whipped cream from the heavy cream. Carefully mix it to the orange cream you just prepared. Fill and coat the cake with this rich orange filling and let it cool in the fridge.
For the decoration, make a syrup from 250 g sugar and 1.25 dl water. Slice the oranges and soak the slices for 3 minutes each in the syrup, then dry on a wire rack. Decorate the cake with these.
The result is an elegant, light and tasty delicacy.
