Orange cake

Today we're making a cake light and easy to prepare. Great for breakfast, it is a base which can also be coated with chocolate or icing for a preparation more sophisticated.

Ingredients

• ½ cup sugar
• 2 egg 
• 4 oranges juice 
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup of cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
• Butter for greasing

Oven at 350° F

Time: 10' + 40'

In a bowl mix the egg and sugar and stir vigorously until it forms a froth.
Add oil, flour. cornstarch and orange juice.
The dough should be smooth enough.
Butter a baking pan 20 cm with zipper.
Spread the dough.
Bake at 350° F for 20 minutes, cover with baking paper and continue cooking for another 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted is dry.
Let cool in pan and sprinkle with powdered sugar

  

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Cupscake with carrots

Today we'll making light cakes, but tasty, easy to prepare and reminiscent of brioche "Camille". I this morning I ate one for breakfast (I had prepared yesterday afternoon) and the weather has improved, despite the rain!

Ingredients for 15 cupcakes:
• 5.29 OZ (150 gams) grated carrots
• 7.05 OZ (200 grams) of flour for cakes (00 + starch)
• 3.53 OZ (100 grams) of sugar
• 1.76 OZ (50 gams) almond flour
• ½ teaspoon of baking powder
• 1 cup of sunflower oil
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Time: 15 min
Cooking time: 20/25 minutes
Oven: 302 ° F

At first you must grated the raw carrots. In a planetary or in a large bowl beat the egg with the sugar, then add the oil and stirring vigorously.
Stir in the grated carrots and flour little by little.
If the mixture is too thick, add milk, but not too much.
Still stirring, add the almond flour, vanilla and baking powder.
If you wish, you can also make the dough more fragrant with 1 teaspoon grated lemon or orange zest bio.
Place in a baking muffin 15 paper cups and pour in each a little dough, which should be enough liquid.
Bake in oven at 302 ° F, for 20/25 minutes, if they were to darken too much halfway through  cover with a sheet of wax paper.
Remove them from the pan immediately and let cool on a wire rack.
If you wish, sprinkle with icing sugar.

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Soft Cake with peaches

Soft cake with peaches

INGREDIENTS

• ½ cup sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 natural yoghurt
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup of cornstarch
• 200 gr. peach jam
• 3 peaches
• 1 tablespoon rum
• 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
• Butter for greasing

Oven at 350° F

In a bowl, pour the yogurt and mix the yolks and sugar.
Stir vigorously until it forms a froth.
Add oil and flour.
The dough should be smooth enough.

Put the jam into a pan in water bath

Butter a baking pan 20 cm with zipper.
Spread half of dough.
Cover with a layer of jam, leaving 3 tablespoons.
Cover with the dough missing.
Peel peaches and cut into slices, arrange them in a radial pattern by pressing them into the dough.
Heat the 3 tablespoons of jam advanced with a tablespoon of rum, and spread on the surface of the cake with a brush.

Bake at 350° F  for 20 minutes, cover with baking paper and continue cooking for another 10 minutes or until a toothpick inserted is dry.

Let cool in pan and sprinkle with powdered sugar

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