Name: Mandarin orange cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 55 min
Ingredients: 3 mandarins; 50 ml oil (or butter); 3 eggs; 2 cups Self-raising wholemeal flour; 1 cup sugar; 4 tbsp icing sugar (for decorating)

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a mandarin orange cake on a plate and pieces of mandarins around it.

This mandarin cake is a straightforward and delicious cake to make.

Before you discard overripe mandarin oranges, why not use them in this delicious cake?

Why I love this recipe:

This mandarin orange cake is made with the goodness of mandarins and whole ingredients.

I like making this mandarin cake when I have mandarins that would otherwise go bad, and it makes a tasty treat for my family.

The citrus flavour is lovely on winter days and is also a nice reminder of the luxury of having such fruits as citrus in cold countries at this time of the year. And it’s great to have them in a delicious cake.

Easy and quick to make

This mandarin orange cake is one of the easiest cakes to make. It will take less time if you have a blender or a food processor, but if you don’t, it’s not difficult to do without. After you chop the mandarins, you can either use an electric mixer or a hand whisk to mix the rest of the ingredients.

Five ingredients

It only takes five ingredients that we usually always have at home: oil, eggs, sugar, flour and fruit.

What you need:

Ingredients:

3 Mandarins plus one for decorating.
50 ml of oil, you can use any oil or replace it with butter.
3 eggs
2 cups of self-raising wholemeal flour. You can replace it with white self-raising flour, or wholemeal flour and 2 tsps of baking powder and 1/2 tsp of salt.
1 cup of sugar, I use Muscovado sugar.
Icing sugar.

Method:

Wash the mandarins and add the whole mandarins (zest and all!) to a food mixer or blender. Or by hand.

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Blend until you have a fruit puree.

Then add the eggs, oil, and mix.

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Then add the sugar and blend.

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Add the self-raising wholemeal flour and mix all the ingredients well.

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Pour the mixture into a cake pan or bread tin. cooking time: approximately 30-35 minutes at 180 °C, or if you insert a knife and it comes out clean, it is ready.

Let the cake cool down to room temperature.

For the icing:

Mix 4 tablespoons of icing sugar with a few drops of mandarin juice, but you can replace it with orange or lemon juice, until you get a nice viscous consistency.

a bowl with icing sugar and a bowl with a mixture of icing sugar with mandarine orange juice

Pour the icing over the top of the cake with a spoon.

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Grate mandarin zest or orange zest

And decorate.

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Prep Time 20

Cook Time 35

Total Time 55

Servings 8

Equipment

1 food processor optional
1 cake pan
1 small bowl

Ingredients

3 mandarins
50 ml oil or butter
3 eggs
2 cups Self-raising wholemeal flour
1 cup sugar
4 tbsp icing sugar for decorating

Instructions

Wash the mandarins and add the whole mandarins (zest and all!) to a food mixer or blender.
Blend until you have a fruit puree
Then add the eggs, oil, and mix.
Then add the sugar and blend.
Add the self-raising wholemeal flour and mix well.
Pour the mixture into a cake tin or bread tin. cooking time: 30-35 minutes at 180 °C or until if you insert a knife comes out clean..
Let the cake cool down to room temperature.
for the icing:
Mix 4 tablespoons of icing sugar with a few drops of clementine juice, but you can replace it with orange or lemon juice|, until you get a nice viscous consistency.
Pour over the top of the cake with a spoon.
Grate mandarin zest or orange zest
And decorate

Keyword cake, easy, fruit, mandarine

Mandarin orange cake recipe, fresh and delicious!