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SUGGESTION OF THE WEEK
ORANGE CAKE WITH RAISINS

Ingredients for 6 persons : 300 gr [10 oz] wheat flour / 200 gr [7 oz]
sugar / 150 gr [5 oz] soft unsalted butter / 2 eggs + 4 egg yolks /
3 oranges / 10 cl [3 fl oz] milk / 50 gr [2 oz] raisins / 1 tspoon baking
powder

- Cut a disk of greaseproof paper at the size of the cake tin and place it
in the bottom of the tin ; butter it. Wash and cut 2 oranges into thin
slices and line the tin with those slices (overlap each other) ; spread
them with 3 Tbspoons of sugar. Take the zests of the left orange
and press it for juice.

- Work together the soft butter and sugar to obtain a smooth mixture.
Add the egg yolks and the eggs (mix), the orange zest and juice (mix),
the flour and baking powder (mix), the milk (mix), then the raisins (mix).

- Pour the preparation in the tin and bake in pre-heated oven for 1 hour
at 160°C / 325°F.

- Take the cake out from tin (leave it upside down) and remove the
greaseproof paper. If you like very sweet cakes, you can spread some
sugar cane syrup so that the cake will "shine".

- Serve warm…
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