Products (for 5 servings)
Flour - 150 g
Eggs - 3 pcs.
Orange - 0.5 pcs.
Baking powder - 1 teaspoon
Salt - 1 pinch
Sugar - 25 g
Powdered sugar - 100 g
Milk - 25 ml

Prepare ingredients for African orange cake.
Wash the orange thoroughly and dry. Zest half an orange (only the bright part) and then squeeze out the juice.

Combine the egg yolks in a bowl with powdered sugar.

Beat the yolks with powdered sugar for about a minute.
Pour the juice of half an orange and milk into the resulting mixture.

Beat the mixture with a mixer for another 30 seconds.

Sift flour mixed with baking powder into the resulting mixture. Stir dry ingredients into liquid base.

Add the zest of half an orange to the resulting dough. Stir the dough.
Turn on the oven to preheat to 165 degrees.

In another bowl, beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt and 25 g of sugar until stiff peaks form.

Fold the egg whites into the orange cake batter in two batches.

The finished dough for mskuta should be light and airy, it is very similar to regular biscuit dough.

Transfer the dough into a cake pan and bake the mskuta in the oven preheated to 165 degrees for 50 minutes.

Cool the finished cake in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to a plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar through a strainer.

Instead of powdered sugar, mskuta can be topped with chocolate glaze, caramel syrup, or decorated as desired.
Bon appetit!