Orange Polenta Cake

Entertaining? Need something delicious, impressive, yet easy and foolproof to whip up. This is your cake. It takes only 15 minutes to prepare, then a quick syrup poured over the top. It makes an impressive dessert or is delicious in the afternoon with a cup of tea.

Ingredients

½ cup	Freshly squeezed orange juice, plus 2 tbsp of orange rind
½ cup	Vegetable oil
2	Eggs
2 Tbsp	Honey
½ cup	Sugar
1 ½ cups	Self raising flour
½ cup	Ground almonds
½ cup	Polenta (Main)

Syrup

⅓ cup	Freshly squeezed orange juice
⅓ cup	Sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius. Line and grease a 20cm round cake tin.
2. In a large bowl whisk orange juice, rind, vegetable oil, eggs, honey and sugar together.
3. Add flour, ground almonds and polenta. Quickly mix to form a thick batter.
4. Pour batter into greased cake tin and smooth the top with the back of a wet spoon.
5. Bake for 45 - 50 minutes, check by piercing with a skewer, that it comes out clean.
6. Set aside to cool.
7. Over a low heat, mix syrup ingredients, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes till thickened.
8. Pierce the top of the cake with a skewer and drizzle the warm syrup over the cooled cake.
9. Dust with icing sugar and serve with a big dollop of greek yogurt.