A simple yet scrumptious orange-scented cake made very easily in a food processor. Delicious plain or with coffee.

I hate this time of the year! Rain…cold….shorter days…so depressing. Adding to the misery is the produce section, no fruits whatsoever. All I see is citrus (but gorgeous ones though), apples and pears. I certainly spot berries but the inner foodie in me just doesn’t incline to buying berries in the mid of dead winter. I’ll wait for spring and go local. So, I stocked my basket with apples and oranges, dropped off an overdue book at the library and drove back home only to realize I had navel oranges, clementines and cuties. Really? what was I even thinking?? Lol 🙂 Anyways, we love to get our daily dose of vitamin-c, but it gets monotonous in a short while. Long story short, birth of my orange-walnut cake.
I came up this recipe about 3 weeks ago. First try- I sliced the cake while it was warm to make sure it came out right. Three of us polished off the entire cake even before it got a chance to cool completely. It was SOOOOOOOO GOOD! Hub-hub was not thrilled to find out that we didn’t save a slice for him:) So, I made another one next day, just so that he could taste it. The cake was finished in about 3 hours after oven time. I baked this cake probably 11 times in just 2 1/2 weeks and it never managed to make it to the second day. I did manage to share with friends and Sophia’s school and all of them just went crazy for it. I already have folks waiting for this recipe.

So, what is so special about this cake, you might wonder. It’s incredibly soft and tender, brimming with orange goodness, just the right amount of sweetness and SOOOOOOO YUM! All you need is your food processor to make this cake. NO stand mixer or hand blender required. And the ingredients, no complicated measurements-
1/2 cup walnuts/ butter/ sugar/ orange juice ;
1/2 teaspoon baking powder / baking soda / salt ;
2 eggs / oranges ;
1 cup flour ;
So simple right? The process is simple as well –
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grind all dry ingredients in the food processor and transfer to a bowl
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into same processor, process zest, butter and sugar
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add eggs, process
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add half flour mixture, process
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add orange juice, process
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add remaining flour, process
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pour into a pan, bake and gobble it up
All dry ingredients into the food processor…..

process until finely ground……

transfer into a bowl and then add butter, sugar and zest……

process until creamy…add eggs… process…..

process flour and orange juice….

and bake….

Rosee
Sunday 8th of August 2021
Thank you so much for this recipe!! Absolutely amazing 🤩 my family love it soooo much and today I doubled the recipe! Definitely a favourite 💓
Maria Doss
Sunday 8th of August 2021
Hi Rosee, Glad that you loved the cake, Maria
Neetika
Friday 29th of June 2018
Looks delicious.. Great texture.. Was wondering, if grinding the walnuts to flour consistency allows more flavour or lesser, than when they are finely chopped!!
Maria Doss
Friday 29th of June 2018
Hi Neetika, grinding walnuts along with the flour helps it to become part of the flour, reducing the gluten which in turn helps the softer texture. In my opinion, that is hard to achieve when chopped. Hope it helps:)
Veena
Monday 10th of July 2017
This is the first recipe I have tried from your blog.... AND I LOVED IT. I was researching various recipes for the rasmalai cake, and found your blog. And I am glad I did!!! So many interesting recipes... not sure which I will try next. thank you Maria - and more power to your kitchen.
Love from DubaiX0X0 Veena
Maria Doss
Monday 10th of July 2017
Aww... thank you so much and glad that you liked it. Love..
Stephanie
Thursday 23rd of February 2017
Yess! I need this recipe in my life. I love orange-flavored desserts. I will definitely be giving this one a try.
Maria Doss
Friday 24th of February 2017
Thank you Stephanie :)
Emily
Thursday 23rd of February 2017
Love it, and looks simple enough that even someone like me can even do it xx thanks will try this out x
Maria Doss
Thursday 23rd of February 2017
Thank you Emily:)