HONEY, ORANGE AND ALMOND CAKE from Weight Watchers 

This is a really delicious, moist, no-fat, no-flour cake, which is a Weight Watcher's recipe, which I have altered slightly, and thought I should share with you.

Ingredients

- half tsp low fat spread for greasing. You could use any butter or margarine if you don't need the low fat.

- 6 eggs, separated in two different bowls

- 100 g brown caster sugar, or soft brown sugar.

- Grated zest of 2 oranges, and juice of half orange.

- 150 g ground almonds

To decorate

Juice of one and a half oranges, or 20mls orange juice

2 tbl sp  clear honey

1 orange, pealed and cut into thin rounds.

Method

- Preheat oven to gas mark 180C or 160C in a fan oven.

- Line a 20 cm springform cake tin with baking paper, and grease with low fat spread.

- In a bowl, beat together egg yolks, sugar, orange zest and juice of half orange, and almonds

- Whisk egg whites in a separate, clean grease-free bowl for about 2 mins, or until it is stiff and forms peaks.

- Using a metal spoon, spoon in one table spoon of egg white into mixture to loosen it.

- Fold in the remaining egg whites into cake mixture.

- Pour mixture into cake tin, and bake for 35 mins, or until a skewer comes out clean.

- Leave to cool in tin for 20 mins.

To make Topping

- Put the orange juice and honey in a small pan and bring to boil. 

- Stir once, and then without stirring, lower the heat, and leave to simmer for about 6-8 mins, or until reduced and syrupy. 

- Remove cake from tin and use a fork to prick the top all over.

- Spoon three quarter of the syrup of the top of the cake.

- Arrange the oranges on cake and spoon over the remaining syrup.

- Let the syrup soak into the cake for a few minutes, then serve in 10 slices. 

Serve on it's own, or with fromage frais, or clotted cream, or double cream.