Chocolate Orange Cake

Oh my! For a gluten free cake this one is superb. The recipe is from Nigella Lawson's cookbook: Feast.
She says it is a citrussy, wet and light cake and that is true.

2 small or 1 large, thin-skinned orange
6 eggs
1 heaped tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
200g ground almonds
250g sugar
50g cocoa

Put the whole orange or oranges in a pan with cold water, bring to the boil and cook for 2 hours or until soft. Drain, and when cool, cut the oranges in half and remove any big pips. Then pulp everything - pith, peel and all - in a food processor. Cool the fruit. (you can do this part the day before)

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and line a 20cm springform tin.

Add the eggs, baking powder, soda, almonds, sugar and cocoa to the orange in the food processor. Run the motor until it is like cake batter but with flecks of orange still visible.

Pour into cake tin and bake for an hour, checking at 45 minutes for doneness with a toothpick. Leave the cake in tin to cool.

Yummmmmy.

Tip for baking cakes: always use the largest eggs you can find.