Flourless Orange Cupcakes

A friend gave me this recipe a few years ago and it is dead easy. I like to make it in individual cupcakes. As the mixture lacks any flour, they don't really rise, so you'll need to fill the cases to the top. These are super sweet and quite dense, so a dollop of cream cuts through the sweetness perfectly.


Flourless Orange Cupcakes

Cake
Ingredients
2 Navel oranges
250 grams slivered almonds
8 dried apricots
170 grams caster sugar
5 eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder

Syrup
1 orange
1/2 cup caster sugar
1/2 cup water


Cake Method
Preheat oven to 150 degrees. Place 2 oranges in a plastic bag and microwave on high for 12 mins. Cool. Put the almonds in a blender or Thermomix and pulse/turbo until they resemble almond meal. Add cooled oranges and apricots to blended almonds. Process until finely chopped. In the Thermomix, this was 12 seconds on speed 8. Add sugar, eggs and baking powder. Blend for 20 seconds (12 seconds speed 5 in the Thermomix). Pour into cupcake cases and bake approximately 25 mins. Leave to cool in the tin, then remove.

Syrup Method
Zest the orange and squeeze out the juice. Put these in a saucepan with sugar and water. Bring to boil, stirring until sugar in dissolved. Then boil on high for 10 mins without stirring. Cool then serve with cupcakes and a dollop of whipped cream.

Make 12 cupcakes.