Italian Spices Citrus Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 eggs, separated
scant 2/3 c. Superfine sugar (plus 2 tsp. for cream)
finely grated peel and juice of 2 oranges
finely grated peel and juice of 1 lemon
generous 1 c. ground almonds
2 Tbsp. self-rising flour
3/4 c. light cream
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 c. slivered almonds, toasted
confectioners sugar (to dust)

Preparation

Grease and line the base of 7-inch round deep cake pan.
Blend the egg yolks with the sugar until mixture is thick and creamy. Whisk half of the orange peel and all of the lemon peel into the egg yolks.
Mix the juice from both oranges and the lemon with the ground almonds and stir into the egg yolks.
The mixture will become quite runny at this point.
Fold in flour.
Whisk the egg whites until stiff and gently fold into yolk mixture.
Pour mixture into pan and bake in preheated oven at 350\u00b0 for 35 to 40 minutes until golden and springs to the touch.
Let cool in pan for 10 minutes and then turn out.
It will sink slightly at this stage. Whip cream to form soft peaks.
Stir in remaining orange peel, cinnamon and sugar.
Once cake is cold, cover with the toasted almonds and dust with confectioners sugar and serve with cream. Serves 8.