Orange bread, the ingredients:

To prepare the orange bread, you need: a large organic orange with untreated zest; 120 millilitres of semi-skimmed milk; 100 milliliters of sunflower oil; 220 grams of granulated sugar; three eggs; three ounces of double-zero flour; a sachet of baking powder; just enough powdered sugar for the final garnish.

Preparation

Preparing this dessert is very simple and also very quick and you only need a blender to do it.

After washing and carefully cleaning the orange under running water, cut it into rather coarse pieces and without removing the peel. Only the parts of the petiole and the part at the base are removed. Once this is done, all that remains is to put the orange in the blender and run the machine for a few minutes until you get a sort of puree.

At that point, turn off the mixer and add the milk, sunflower oil and sugar, then blend for a few more minutes.

In a bowl, break the eggs and add them to the mixture, blending to mix everything.

Then add the flour a little at a time, dosing it with a spoon (it should not be sifted because the mixture will still result in lumps, and that’s fine) and then a sachet of baking powder. Everything should be blended for a couple of minutes.

Now take a springform pan with a diameter of more or less 25 centimeters, then butter it and cover it with parchment paper. In the meantime, the (static) oven will have been preheated to a temperature of 180 degrees.

Orange loaf bread: the cooking

Pour the batter into the pan and level it with a spatula. Then cook for about 50-60 minutes. If the dough is still raw, but the surface is golden, you can cover it with parchment paper or aluminum foil and continue cooking.

Before serving, the dessert should be left to cool. A nice finishing touch will be a generous sprinkling with powdered sugar.

Have fun and enjoy!