Italian boiled orange cake

[O4aTimtam]

I have to confess to doing the Tim Tam "straw" trick too!  You have to be very precise with your timing or it can get very messy.  I nearly mentioned it in my earlier post, but being a "Newbie" poster I am (was) on best behaviour.

[farfallina]

Tim Tam must be very mythical then considering there are also some methods to eat it!

By the way I agree with you Timtam, I prefer making myself instead of buying from the market. There are many chemical food additives

[CreamPuff63]

I am one of those rare people not willing to publicly show my face and admit to people that I don't particularly like Tim Tam's that much  ... I only eat home-made biccies as they are more flavoursome

[I Love Bimby!]

Exactly ILB! 

My current theory is it must be healthier if you made it youself.  So I started buying less Tim Tams and making more Torte Caprese (chocolate cake from our EDC book, Farfallina).  My new problem is trying to stop eating the Torte Caprese!  Very nice to have a little corner while still warm from the oven ...

Ah and there in lies the problem... I have no self control what so ever when it comes to chocolate or my sweet tooth! So the Torte Caprese is too big for me to have in the house (just DD and myself) as I would quiet easily consume the whole thing in no time.  I've proven that numerous times 

I try not to make these things unless I have guests coming, or I can take the food else where so that I can make sure there is nothing in the house to tempt me.... which leads me to the problem of DD's Grannie providing lots of little chocolates for the guests who had already had plenty of sweet treats and these little chocolates were left here.... "were" being the operative word there..... 

[Very Happy Jan]

I am one of those rare people not willing to publicly show my face and admit to people that I don't particularly like Tim Tam's that much  ... I only eat home-made biccies as they are more flavoursome

I'm not that fussed about Tim Tams either CP63 so I rarely have them & then can only eat 1. Actually can't remember when the last time was.
Now shortbread are a different story 

[Thermomixer]

Ooops - still no progress on the cake?  My mother used to have similar biscuits in the UK many years ago that they used as straws?  Not sure what they were but know they weren't Tim Tams - funny how you suddenly remember things (when you get old !!!!!)

[milnead]

I have this one from an old Italian cake book by Bimby (it's not really boiled, just warmed, though):
 
One well-washed whole orange
2 1/2 MC of sugar
3 eggs
1 MC cooking oil
400 g flour
1 sachet baking powder (that's 16 g; I'd use just 2 tsp)
1 1/2 MC orange juice.

First put orange (cut into pieces) and sugar in  and mix at turbo speed until smooth, then use speed 3 at 50ēC for 1 minute. Add oil and eggs, work on turbo 1-2 minutes. Turn speed to 5 and add remaining ingredients (mix only till blended with rest). Bake at 180° for 30\40 minutes.