ORANGE, PISTACHIO AND HONEY POLENTA CAKE


Bursting with the delicious flavours of the Mediterranean, this Orange, Pistachio and Honey Polenta Cake, is naturally gluten free, dairy free AND refined sugar free. It’s also very easy to make and, of course, totally delicious!



This cake began with a desire to create something a little bit different for Mother’s Day…when you google Mother’s day recipes, the results are a little bit depressing – put it this way, there is a lot of salmon, Victoria sandwich cakes and petits fours!

Not that I have anything against salmon, Victoria sandwich cakes and petits fours, but it all feels very clichéd. I wanted to do something a little bit different…something I would enjoy and, I hope, so would other mothers too. But also something easy – so it could be made FOR the mother in question and not BY her! (Yes I realise that lots of sons/daughters/kids/dads etc. are super competent at making cakes, but lots aren’t! My hubby has a total aversion to making cakes, so consequently I never get cakes on my birthday or Mother’s Day, as my kids aren’t old enough to make them by themselves yet (though give my daughter a year or two…) But seriously this cake is so simple even my husband could make it!)

Ingredients


Cake
  • 200 g fine polenta
  • 200 g pistachio kernels ground or chopped finely
  • Zest and juice of 1 orange
  • 4 eggs
  • 175 ml honey
  • 200 ml olive oil

Glaze
  • Juice of 1 orange roughly 50ml/2floz
  • 50 ml honey
  • Decoration
  • 50 g pistachio kernels ground or chopped finely
  • Zest of 1 orange


Method

  • Preheat oven to 180C / 160C fan/ gas mark 4 / 350F. Grease a 20cm / 8inch cake tin with a little olive oil and line the base with baking paper. Grease the top of the baking paper with a little olive oil too.
  • Mix all the polenta with 200g / 7oz ground/chopped pistachios and orange zest from 1 of the oranges in a large bowl.
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get full recipe here : www.easypeasyfoodie.com




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