Peach lovers may even want to gild the lily and serve it with this delightful (and super easy) blender peach ice cream! Or dust with some powdered sugar and serve with freshly whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. It has a delicious peach flavor and is perfect when served “naked”, with some fresh peach slices on top. I tell you this so you understand what a brilliant base that this original Sicilian whole orange cake recipe is! Of course, I had to try it last year with peaches, and no surprise, it was another marvelous addition to the list! Peeling fruit is never involved! Kumquat cupcakes I have made a gluten free Sicilian whole orange cake and gluten free Sicilian whole lemon cake, both of which don’t taste like they’re gluten free at all! I’ve also made this recipe in cupcake form using kumquats for these glazed and iced kumquat cupcakes: fantastic! The best part about this recipe, apart from the amazing results, is how easy it is to make these cakes.

😕 Since the orange cake was such a success (almost 2000 amazing reviews to date), I experimented with other fruits and readers have loved the whole lemon cake and kumquat cake versions as well as a no peel apple cake and whole pear cake. Now you’ll see that many other sites have, erm, “discovered” this recipe, but have failed to give credit to where they found the recipe. When I posted it years ago after my mother found the recipe on an Italian site called Allacciate Il Grembiule (essentially, “tie up/put on your apron”) there were no whole orange cake recipes on Google US or UK.

If you have followed me for any amount of time, chances are you know about my Sicilian whole orange cake recipe.

German peach tart