If you’ve been following our blog this month, you’ll know we’ve been focusing on foods that can help you boost your energy levels. Choosing your ingredients carefully is the difference between the right kind of sugar, carbohydrates, and fats, which boost your energy levels and the wrong kind, which will leave you feeling tired and hungry a short time later.
Our last recipe of the month is an upside-down orange cake. Many people love to eat cake mid morning or mid afternoon as an energy boost when they are hitting a low. However, traditional cake made with flour and sugar is high glycemic which means it will spike your blood sugar levels quickly and sharply, however, make you feel tired and hungry later in the day. This cake made with almond flour and maple, is much lower on the glycemic index and will be sure to satisfy your sweet tooth without playing havoc with your blood sugar levels and appetite.
If you’ve received blood oranges in your box this week, we recommend swapping out the oranges for blood oranges in the recipe for a stunning finish!
Upside-down Orange Cake (one 20cm cake)
INGREDEINTS
- 3 tbsp coconut sugar
- 3 tbsp grass fed butter
- 1/3 cup (65g) ghee/butter
- 1 ¾ cups (175g) almond flour
- ¼ cup (30g) arrowroot flour or any gluten free flour blend
- ¼ tsp salt
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup (120ml) maple syrup/honey
- 2 tsp vanilla powder/extract
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 2 Oranges from the fruitful day box
METHOD
- Preheat oven to 165 degrees C. Grease or line a cake tin and set aside.
- Zest the oranges and then slice into 1cm slices. Cut the peel off each slice leaving a slither of the pith to hold the orange together.
- Heat the coconut sugar and butter in a pan on low heat until the sugar is melted. Pour this mixture into the bottom of the prepared cake tin and spread evenly.
- Arrange the orange slices over the butter and sugar mixture.
- In one bowl mix the almond flour, arrowroot, salt and baking soda.
- Separate the egg whites from the yolks and in another bowl mix the yolks, maple syrup, melted ghee, vanilla, lemon juice and orange zest.
- Beat the egg whites with a hand mixer or kitchen aid until they form soft peaks.
- Mix the egg yolk mixture into the flour mixture and then fold in the egg whites.
- Pour this cake mixture over the oranges in the cake tin.
- Bake for 30 – 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Check the cake after 8 – 10 minutes and cover if it has began to brown. As soon as you see browning you need to cover for the remainder of the cooking time.