This Paleo Orange Cake recipe, made with 6 healthy ingredients, is one of our favorite desserts. All you need to make it is whole oranges, almond flour, eggs, honey, salt, and baking soda.
This easy paleo cake recipe is the perfect holiday dessert for Christmas, Hanukkah, Easter, and Passover.
It seems weird to make a cake with whole oranges. However, using the orange with its peel adds a rich flavor dimension to the cake. Yes, use the entire orange including the peel in this recipe!
The idea for this easy grain-free cake recipe came from one of my favorite cookbook authors, Claudia Roden. Her recipe is called 
Gateau a l’Orange. Nigella Lawson also has a a citrus cake recipe using fruit and peel made with clementines.
This paleo cake recipe would likely be incredible with lemons, though adjustments would likely need to be made. If you do experiment leave a comment and let us know if it works.
Here are some of my other easy low-carb paleo cake recipes for you!
This post is an oldie but goodie from the archives. I first shared this recipe in November 2008.
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376 responses to “Paleo Orange Cake”
I replaced the honey with a syrup that I made with the water left from cooking the lemons. I added three slices of ginger and 3/4 of Monk fruit blend. (Erithytol/monk fruit blend) I boiled down to about 3/4 cup liquid. I made for dessert tonight so I will let you know how it turned out. After baking, seems much drier than I remember. Maybe need to add some coconut oil next time. The batter tasted very good.
Debbie, sounds like a very big experiment –I hope it worked ok :-)
It did actually. Not as good as the original recipe, but quite tasty. I will definetly make again, but add a bit of coconut oil.
Thanks Debbie!
I eat Paleo and Keto, have you ever tried to replace the honey with Monk Fruit?
If not your thoughts on this.
Debbie, thanks for your comment! Plain 100% monk fruit is fantastic, but will not replace honey. That aside, there are a number of products that claim to be monkfruit but have a tiny amount of it in a base that is a corn sugar alcohol –not the best food for those with autoimmune conditions. I write about that here:
https://elanaspantry.com/whats-the-best-sweetener-for-the-keto-diet/
Let me know if you have any questions!
Elana
what do you think is the best alternative for honey? except for stevia. honey has high calories
Myra, I haven’t tried that so not sure. You might enjoy my Keto Brownies recipe.
https://elanaspantry.com/keto-brownies/
Sorry I can’t be of more help!
Elana
Made this orange cake for Christmas! Moist. Very tasty. Satisfying. Great texture. I discarded the water from boiling the oranges & noticed the deep orange color. Wish I had thought to taste first. All that color had to mean phynutients. Wondered if you ever used to make tea or other things. Feel like I wasted good opputunity. Next time I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the recipe. Loved it.
Sue, thanks for letting me know you loved this recipe! I haven’t saved the boiled orange water, but I bet it would make a great drink of some sort. I hope your Christmas was wonderful and I’m so glad my cake was on your table so we could celebrate together :-)
I so want to make this! Do you strain the oranges before processing?
Thanks!
Tamar, nope :-)
thanks!
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