Provencal Cake

It can be made from both wheat flour and almond flour. This orange cake recipe is perfect if a friend comes over for tea in the evening! And the kids love it too!

Ingredients

• Eggs - 6 pcs.
• Wheat or almond flour - 1.5 cups
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Orange - 3 pcs. (2 - for cooking, 1 - for decoration)
• Lemon - 1 pc.
• Baking powder (or soda slaked with lemon juice) - 10 g
• Sunflower or olive oil - 0.5 cups
• Carnation - 5-6 flowers
• Cinnamon - to taste
• Vanilla sugar - to taste

Directions

1. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder.
2. Grate the zest of two oranges and one lemon, add to the flour and mix.
3. Add eggs to dry ingredients and mix. The dough should flow like sour cream.
4. Grease a baking dish with oil. Bake in the oven 40-50 min. at a temperature of 190 degrees. Readiness to check with a match or a toothpick (if the cake is baked well, the dough will not stick to the toothpick).
5. While the cake is baking, we prepare the impregnation. Squeeze the juice from two oranges and one lemon (the zest of which was added to the cake).
6. We put the squeezed juice on the fire, add cinnamon, cloves, vanilla sugar (if desired). Bring to a boil.
7. We take out the finished cake from the oven (we do not remove it from the mold). We arm ourselves with a toothpick and make many, many small holes in the finished cake.
8. Saturate the cake with juice very slowly.
9. We decorate the finished cake with oranges with a thinly sliced ​​borange.