Ingredients:

  • 400 gr of white flour
  • 300 gr of sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 200 ml of mandarin juice
  • 150 ml of extra virgin olive oil
  • 4 mandarins (peel)
  • 1 bag of baking powder
  • Almonds as needed
  • Pine nuts as needed
  • Cranberries as needed
  • 150 gr of powdered sugar
  • 30 gr egg white

Preparation:

  1. Wash and dry the mandarins. Grate the peel and set aside. Squeeze them and filter the juice. In a bowl whisk together the eggs and the sugar. Add extra virgin olive oil, mandarin juice, sifted flour and mandarin peel.
  2. Oil a mould and pour the dough into it. Cook at 170 ° C in a preheated oven for 30 minutes, continuing to cook, lowering the temperature if necessary.
  3. Once cooked, let the cake rest for 10 minutes in the half-closed oven.
  4. Meanwhile, prepare the icing: add the icing sugar to the egg whites and mix thoroughly. Pour the icing on the cold cake cold, decorate with pine nuts, dried cranberries, and whole almonds.