Macadamia Oil and Rosemary Cake
Australian Macadamia SocietyThis unique combination creates a cake that really showcases the subtleness of macadamia oil and the delicate, buttery crunch of macadamias. Easy to whip up for afternoon tea or dessert, just add cream to serve and watch everyone come back for seconds.
Macadamia Oil and Rosemary Cake
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Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup caster sugar
- 1/2 cup macadamia oil
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1 cup macadamia nuts ground to make 1 cup meal
- 1/2 cup self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt flakes
- 2 tbsp fresh rosemary finely chopped
Glaze
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1/4 cup honey
To Serve
- Rosemary sprigs
- Thick cream
Directions
The Cake
Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a ring or bundt loaf cake tin.
- Place the eggs, caster sugar, macadamia oil and lemon juice in a bowl and whisk until smooth.
- In a separate bowl, combine the ground macadamias, flour, baking powder, salt flakes and rosemary.
- Stir the wet ingredients through the dry ingredients until just combined. Do not over mix.
- Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out.
The Glaze
- combine the lemon juice and honey, stirring until smooth.
- While the cake is still warm, use a wooden skewer to make small 2cm deep holes over the top of the cake with intervals of 2-3cm. Spoon over the glaze and decorate with rosemary sprigs.
To Serve
- Warm or cool with thick cream.
- This cake is best eaten on the day it is made.
Recipe Note
We are awlays looking out for ways to make it easier and hopefully healthier. So here are a few ideas
The Flour: If don't want to use it try almond meal because the almond is a very dry nut, the macadamia is full of healthy oils, so they balance each other out.
Cane Sugar not for you? Of course, you probabaly know all about sugar altertnatives but I do have one suggestion: Xylitol derived from the Birch tree, this is the original Xylitol and tastes a lot better than many others often made from corn.
Nutrition
Nutrition
- per serving
- Calories
- Carbs
- 31 grams
- Protein
- 5 grams
- Fat
- 29 grams
- Cholesterol
- 82 milligrams
- Sodium
- 231 milligrams
- Potassium
- 125 milligrams
- Fiber
- 2 grams
- Sugar
- 22 grams
