Y S Lee

Author of Young Adult, Historical and Mystery Novels

  • Novels
    • A Spy in the House
      • Excerpt: A Spy in the House
      • Deleted scene: A Spy in the House
    • The Body at the Tower
      • Excerpt: The Body at the Tower
      • Deleted scene: The Body at the Tower
    • The Traitor in the Tunnel
      • Excerpt: The Traitor in the Tunnel
      • Deleted scene: The Traitor in the Tunnel
    • Rivals in the City
      • Excerpt: Rivals in the City
      • Deleted scene: Rivals in the City
  • Short Stories
  • Blog
  • About
    • FAQs
  • Visits
You are here: Home / Things I Do / Almond-Orange Cake

Almond-Orange Cake

June 24, 2015 By Ying Leave a Comment

Hello, friends. My family is still somewhat under the weather and I’m short on blogging time, so this week I’ll share my new favourite cake. It’s based on this grain-free almond layer cake recipe with a few little changes: increasing the butter slightly, replacing milk with orange juice, adding orange zest. This makes an incredibly fragrant, not-too-sweet cake. When both filled and frosted with buttercream, I find it a little too rich. But with just a layer of buttercream filling, in the manner of a classic Victoria sponge cake, it is pretty much perfect.

Almond Orange Layer Cake

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

zest of one orange

4 eggs

1/2 cup orange juice

2 tsp vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups almond meal/flour

1/2 cup coconut flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 350F. Butter two 8-inch round cake pans and line them with parchment. (The cakes get stuck without the parchment.)

Cream together butter, sugar and orange zest. Add eggs, one at a time. Add orange juice and vanilla extract.

Sift together almond meal, coconut flour, baking powder and salt. Add this to the butter-sugar mixture and mix well. (It’s a very thick batter.) Divide batter between cake pans, smooth tops, and bake for 18-25 minutes, or until golden brown.

Once cooled, make a sandwich of the cakes, using about 1 1/2 cups of vanilla buttercream as the filling.

Hope you like it!

Filed Under: Things I Do Tagged With: cake, recipes, Things I Do

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Get my newsletter

powered by TinyLetter

Say hello…

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • E-mail

Search my blog

© Copyright 2019 Y S Lee · All Rights Reserved · Powered by WordPress · Admin