Looking for options for those who have taken sugar out of their diet, I have modified a recipe I made some time ago. This version of the cake is sugar free, using rice malt syrup for the sweetener. The oranges are also sweet, which adds to that natural sweetness.
For those not too worried about a little sugar, my first version of this cake was Lemon Polenta. Using 2 lemons, 200g of raw castor sugar, and omitting the poppyseeds in the main cake batter.
The drizzle syrup has 80g raw castor sugar and the juice of 1 lemon...
The lemon, as you can imagine, is tart and I'm not sure just how well this lemon cake would go using the rice malt syrup?? Sometimes food, so perhaps just use the sugar with the lemon cake..
Oh, and it's gluten free... Yay!!!
Ingredients
2
oranges
140g
organic butter
3
free-range eggs
½
cup rice malt syrup
200g
almond meal
175g
polenta
2
tbsp. poppy seeds
1
tsp. gluten free baking powder
Drizzle: 2 tbsp. rice malt syrup &
the juice of one orange
Method
Line a 23cm cake tin. and set aside. Pre-heat the
oven to 180ºc.
Rinse the oranges and place in a
saucepan of cold water, bringing to the boil.
Drain and pour over more cold water and bring back up to simmer for about
an hour or until they’re really soft.
Keep an eye on them and add more water if needed. Drain the water once the oranges are soft and
allow them to cool a little before halving them, removing the pips and blitz to
a puree in a food processor.
Add the remaining cake ingredients and continue to
process until a loose batter forms.
Scrape into your prepared tin & bake
for approx. 40-50 minutes or until golden and the cake is just shrinking away
from the sides.
While it’s cooking, you can mix together the rice
malt syrup and the orange juice to make the drizzle. When the cake is cooked, allow it to cool a
little before spooning over the drizzle and leaving to completely cool.
Serve with a little natural yogurt or a vanilla
bean cream (chilled
coconut cream, scraping of vanilla bean and 1 tbsp. pure maple syrup whipped
together).
*(I
have used mini rectangular cake tins here, purely because I found the cake tin
and thought it was a pretty cute and easy way to share).
Enjoy ♡ Shaz
