• Preheat oven to 160C.
• Grease, line and dust a 6” round tin and set aside.
• Chop orange into small pieces and discard the seeds.
• Grind it to a coarse paste.
• IN a bowl, combine flour, powdered sugar, baking powder and baking soda.
• Add the orange paste, milk and oil and mix to form thick batter.
• Transfer batter to the prepared tin, top with slivered almonds and bake in the preheated oven for 35-40 minutes.
• Allow it to cool in pan on a wire rack.
• Remove the cake, transfer to a serving platter and brush the top of the cake with simple syrup.
• Slice it up and serve.

P.S:

• Mix together 50 gm sugar and 50 gm water with orange zest and bring to boil. Cool it and use it for brushing the cake.