Level of Difficulty:
1/5
Ingredients
- 2 cups Almond meal
- A pinch Salt
- 1 cup Sugar
- 2 Large egg, beaten
- 125g unsalted butter, melted and cooled, plus more for the pan
- 1 Vanilla pod
- 1 large Orange
- 2 Star anise
- 2 cups Australian Prunes
- 1/2 cup Slithered Almonds toasted
Method
- Melt butter and set aside to cool.
- In a mixing bowl add almond ,eal, orange zest, vanilla bean seeds (save the bean) sugar, eggs, and cooled butter. Beat with a spatula or wooden spoon until combined.
- Pour into a buttered and lined cake tin.
- Decorate with prunes and orange slices.
- Bake at 160 degrees Celsius for 20/25 mins.
- Meanwhile add sugar , orange juice, star anise, vanilla bean and prunes to a frying pan and cook over medium -high heat until syrupy.
- Remove cake from pan , top with prune syrup and toasted slithered almonds
