Dilnaz’s lemon orange jaggery cake

Dilnaz keeps a cake in her biscuit tin. Just like her, it’s a bit of sweet, spice and everything nice. This heart-warming recipe is something she learnt later in life, and she enjoys baking it for her children and neighbours.

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Ingredients

• 1½ cups almond meal
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup jaggery (unprocessed raw sugar)
• ½ cup orange/lemon juice
• 2 tbsp orange/lemon zest
• ½ cup oil
• 1 tbsp yoghurt
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon powder

Method

1. Beat 2 eggs well. Add jaggery and keep beating the mixture. Add the almond meal and then everything else.
2. Fold ingredients together properly.
3. Line a baking tin and bake on 175°C till mixture rises and is golden.
4. Sprinkle a teaspoon of icing sugar. Finely cut lemon/orange slices (without rind) for decoration on top of the cake. Voila!

This recipe was provided by Dilnaz Billimora and was originally published in Recipes for Respect, available on the Whitehorse City Council website.