Moroccan Citrus Cake

Ingredients

Bread Crumbs 100 gm
Baking Powder 1 ½ tsp
Sugar 1 ½ cup
Walnuts ½ cup
Eggs 2
Mandarin Peels ½ cup
Lemon Peels ½ cup
Cinnamon Powder ½ tsp
Dalda Cooking Oil ½ cup

Directions

Wash and cut the lemon and orange peels into thin strips, add them to boiling water for 3 – 4 minutes and strain with a sieve.
Combine ½ cup of sugar and 4 cups or water in a pan and cook till it thickens. Add in the boiled peels and cook for a further 2 – 3 minutes, remove from heat and let it cool.
Add the bread crumbs, sugar, chopped walnuts, baking powder and cinnamon to the pan.
In a separate bowl beat the eggs and Dalda Cooking Oil with an electric beater and fold in the bread crumb mixture.
Grease a cake tin and line with butter paper, pour the prepared mixture into it and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees centigrade for 1 hour. Let it cool and remove from the cake tin.
For making the syrup, simmer the lemon and orange juice, sugar and cloves. Cook for a further 2 – 3 minutes till the sugar dissolves completely.