Christmas can't come early enough and to count down the days I baked some of my favourite tasteful impressions into this seasonal cake. Speculoos cookies and the smell of oranges and cinnamon are definitely key ingredients to make christmas the spice season that it is!
Ingredients:
200g Speculoos Cookies
2 tsp Speculoos Spice
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
Peels of an Orange (Organic!)
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
200g soft Butter
4 Eggs
100ml Buttermilk
130g Sugar
170g Flour
For the candied orange:
1 Orange
150ml Water
150g Sugar
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Using a food processor, grind the speculoos cookies until they make a fine powder.
In a large bowl, mix the spices, sugar, and some grated orange peels with the ground speculoos cookies. Then thoroughly mix in the butter, eggs and buttermilk.
In a separate bowl, mix the flour and baking powder and then add it to the speculoos mix.
Lightly grease and flour a cake pan and pour the cake mix into it. Bake for about 1 hour or until a wooden skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Meanwhile, start prepare the decoration by cutting the orange into very thin slices.
Mix 150ml water and 150g of sugar and a pot and heat on medium heat until the sugar is fully dissolved. Place the oranges in the sugar water and simmer on medium-low heat for about 30 minutes. Remove them from the water and slice through half of the orange so that you can lay it twisted onto the cake (see images).
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