Boiling Oranges

December 24th - By now I was on a mammoth cooking session. Pre-making gravy. Shortbread. Icing the Christmas cake. Florentines. Truffles. Well you do need a bit of a selection for the festive season. I'd been watching a Tom Kerridge Christmas cooking programme and seen what looked like a really easy gluten free cake - perfect for Mr Paleo. Spiced Orange Cake. The first part of this recipe was to boil 3 oranges for a couple of hours until they turned all squidgy. They were then put into the food processor and blitzed to make an orange pulp. To the processor you then add 300g each of ground almonds and caster sugar, 2 teaspoons of baking powder and a teaspoon each of ground ginger and cinnamon then finally 7 eggs. The cake took about an hour to cook in my oven and it was lush. On TV it was served with a Christmas pudding ice cream but it tasted great on it's own too.