Bolo De Laranja (Orange Cake)
Created by Candida on August 7, 2015
- Servings: 14
- Prep Time: 15m
- Cook Time: 1h
- Recipe #20497
Ingredients
- 1 cup orange juice (only freshly squeezed juice from 3-4 oranges)
- 1/4 cup grated orange zest
- 5 large yolks
- 5 egg whites (room temperature)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour (sifted)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup olive oil (extra-virgin, or could use canola oil or vegetable oil)
How to Make
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Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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Step 2: Grease a tube pan then lightly coat with flour.
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Step 3: In a bowl, combine baking powder, flour and orange zest until well combined.
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Step 4: In a separate bowl, with a mixer, beat the egg yolks, sugar and oil until well blended, 4 minutes. Add the juice and flour mixture, beat ingredients until a smooth batter is formed.
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Step 5: In a another separate bowl, beat all the egg whites until stiff peaks form. With a spatula, fold (DO NOT BEAT WITH MIXER) the egg whites into the wet batter until all ingredients are well blended.
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Step 6: Pour the batter into the tube pan.
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Step 7: Bake for approximately 1 hour or until cake tests done. Cool cake.
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Step 8: When cooled remove from tube pan and place on cake plate.
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Step 9: Optional: sprinkle some powdered sugar on top.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (91.8 g)
- Calories 333
- Total Fat - 16.3 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.5 g
- Cholesterol - 8 mg
- Sodium - 57.7 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 44.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.6 g
- Sugars - 30.1 g
- Protein - 2.8 g
- Calcium - 51.5 mg
- Iron - 0.4 mg
- Vitamin C - 8.9 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg