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🍰 Juicy Orange Cake with Shortcrust Pastry

485 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Mound the flour on a clean work surface.
  2. 2. Mix the flour with salt and sugar.
  3. 3. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture.
  4. 4. Cut the cold butter into small cubes.
  5. 5. Distribute the butter pieces around the well.
  6. 6. Place the egg in the center of the well.
  7. 7. Chop all ingredients roughly with a knife until small crumbs form.
  8. 8. Knead the crumbs quickly by hand into a smooth dough.
  9. 9. Ensure the dough no longer sticks to your hands.
  10. 10. Shape the dough into a ball.
  11. 11. Wrap the dough ball in cling film.
  12. 12. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
  13. 13. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius fan-assisted.
  14. 14. Roll out the dough thinly.
  15. 15. Grease a cake tin with butter.
  16. 16. Line the tin with the dough and form a crust edge.
  17. 17. Bake the pastry base for 20 minutes in the oven.
  18. 18. Beat the eggs with the sugar until creamy.
  19. 19. Wash the citrus fruits thoroughly with hot water and dry them.
  20. 20. Finely grate the zest of one lemon and one orange.
  21. 21. Squeeze the juice from all the fruits.
  22. 22. Add the fruit juice and citrus zest to the egg-sugar mixture.
  23. 23. Fold in the flour alternating with the liquid into the egg cream.
  24. 24. Pour the filling onto the pre-baked pastry base.
  25. 25. Finish baking the cake for another 30 minutes.
  26. 26. Let the cake cool down completely in the tin.
  27. 27. Dust the cake with powdered sugar before serving.

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