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Valentine’s treats

SWEETS

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Warm the pot and invite your valentine to join you
for a lighter afternoon tea for two

Orange almond
Orange almond honey cake
honey cake
prep 25 min cook 35 min 1 Heat the oven to 160ºC/fan 140°C/ 4 Meanwhile, make the syrup: combine
cuts into 10 gas 3. Lightly spray a 20cm round cake all the ingredients in a small saucepan
vegetarian dairy free tin with oil. Line the base and sides with and bring to the boil over a medium
baking paper. In a large bowl, whisk the heat, stirring to dissolve the honey.
Flavourless spray oil, to grease egg yolks, honey, orange zest and juice Reduce the heat and simmer until
2 large eggs, separated and olive oil until well combined. reduced by half.
150g runny honey 2 Sift the flour, baking powder and 5 Transfer the cake to a wire rack and
Grated zest 2 large oranges, plus 100ml juice cinnamon into a medium bowl. Gently brush the top with the warm syrup,
5tbsp mild extra-virgin olive oil fold the flour mixture and ground then scatter over the toasted almonds.
125g plain flour almonds into the egg mixture. Serve the cake while it’s still warm or
2tsp baking powder 3 In a separate clean bowl, beat the egg at room temperature.
½tsp ground cinnamon whites until stiff peaks form. Gently fold
PER SLICE
50g ground almonds into the cake batter in batches until just
238kcal 1.5g fibre
1tbsp natural flaked almonds, toasted combined. Pour the mixture into the 11.8g fat 4.8g protein
For the syrup prepared tin, then bake for 30–35 min 1.7g saturates 0.3g salt
Zest and juice 1 large orange until golden and a skewer inserted into 27.3g carbs 50mg calcium
2tbsp runny honey the centre comes out clean. 17.5g sugars 0.9mg iron

70 HEALTHY FOOD GUIDE FEBRUARY 2018