Orange, cinnamon, and fruit cake! 🍊

With Christmas just around the corner, we're sharing a recipe from @cate_sweet_lab : an orange cake full of Christmas colors and flavors, perfect for sharing with your family during this special time of year. At the end, we've also included two tips for flavor substitutions that will still guarantee the typical Christmas taste of this season. 🤤

For a better understanding of how to make this orange cake, you can find a video of our recipe on our Instagram !

Ingredients for making orange cake:

• 2 + 1/2 cups of self-rising flour
• 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseed
• 1 of our large oranges (juice and zest)
• 2 glasses of soy milk
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar
• 2 tablespoons of yeast
• 1 tablespoon of cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons of brown sugar
• 150 grams of candied fruit (coated in flour)

For the glaze:

• 1 cup of confectioner's sugar
• 1 tablespoon of juice from our oranges

For the almonds:

• 1 cup of our almonds with skin
• 2 tablespoons of agave syrup
• 1 pinch of cinnamon

For the cake, mix all the dry ingredients, except the baking powder, plus the orange zest. Add the orange juice and plant-based milk. Mix well. Then add the olive oil and vinegar. Stir until incorporated into the mixture. Add the baking powder and, lastly, the candied fruit (the fruit should be coated in a little flour so that it doesn't all sink to the bottom of the pan when the cake goes into the oven). Pour into a non-stick pan brushed with coconut oil or another fat of your choice. Bake for about 30-40 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit). Check occasionally and use the toothpick test to see if it's cooked through.

Note: Cooking time may vary from oven to oven.

For the glaze, mix the two ingredients and let it rest for about 5 minutes so that the sugar dissolves. Apply the glaze once the cake has cooled.

For the almonds, place them in a frying pan and lightly toast them. Add the agave syrup and a pinch of cinnamon, leave for another minute and remove. Place on parchment paper to make them easier to remove. You can place them whole on top of the cake or roughly chop them.

Substitutions : For those who don't like candied fruit, you can replace it with raisins (also coat them in flour like candied fruit). For those who want a fresher and moister cake, you can use fresh apples from @equalfood cut into small cubes.

Since the orange cake includes icing and candied fruit, the cake batter needs very little sugar. If you are not using icing, increase the sugar in the cake batter to about ¼ cup. If you choose the fresh apple option, you can increase the sugar to about ¼ cup, or ¼ cup if you are not using icing.

This orange cake was baked in a 19 cm diameter Bundt pan.

We hope you enjoy it and that this sweet treat becomes part of your Christmas table! 🥰