orange ricotta cake

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  1. gemjill

    gemjill Junior Member

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    G'day
    My orange ricotta cake
    Inspired by our friend Sue’s gift of homegrown oranges

    Ingredients

    1 cup plain flour
    1 cup ground almonds
    50g butter melted
    ½ cup caster sugar
    ½ cup ricotta cheese
    grated zest of 2 oranges
    juice 1 orange
    juice 1 lemon
    2 teaspoon orange flower water
    1 teaspoon baking powder
    2 eggs
    I cup dried apricots, chopped (some types may need soaking)
    flaked almonds to decorate

    Method

    Pre-heat oven 180°C
    Cream eggs and sugar, add ricotta cheese, mix
    Add almonds, apricots, flower water juice and zest mix
    Sift in flour, add butter, mix
    Pour out into round cake tin, and sprinkle with flaked almonds
    Bake 35-30mins

    hope you enjoy
    cheers
     
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    Re: orange ricotta cake

    Soounds great gemill. I have made some ricotta today that is destined for spinach / ricotta cannaloni but when the oranges come on again I will look back at this page for sure.
    thank you
     
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    gemjill, that sounds great, I'm going to try it!

    Purplepear, what other kinds of cheese do you make?
     
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    main stay is a Colby but we also do a panir and a cream cheese from yoghurt. The panir (spelt many ways) is a fresh (not cultured cheese but goes really well in cooking.
     
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    I've done panir, with lemon, it's really nice. I haven't tried cream cheese...I'll have to check that out :)
     

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