baking cupcakes with my mum

To bake these cupcakes you will need 2 eggs, an orange, a cup and a half of flour, 70 grams of lemon curd and 1/3 cup of caster sugar. The recipe is for making a cake but we put our batter into cupcake moulds and made them into cupcakes. Me and mum also changed the recipe a bit because we didn't have all the ingredients in the recipe. We used 2 lemons instead of 1 orange. We made our own flour by blitzing almonds in the blender and the caster sugar was substituted for brown sugar. Now i'm going to tell you the method of making the cake. Begin by placing the whole orange unpeeled in a pan of boiling water - make sure there's enough water to completely cover the orange - and simmer for at least an hour until the fruit is tender and cooked all the way through. Remove from the heat, drain and leave the orange aside until it is cool enough to handle. Grease and flour a 20 cm (8 in) spring form cake tin, lining the bottom with baking paper. Preheat the oven to 170c. Once the orange has cooled cut it into 8 segments, removing any pips. Put the orange skin and all into the cup of your blender and blitz to a pulp. Add the eggs, followed by the ground almonds, lemon curd then the sugar and blitz again until everything is incorporated into a smooth mixture. Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake in the oven for 40 minutes. Check the cake is cooked by inserting a skewer - if it comes out clean the cake is done. Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin.