This cake includes the entire orange. The works. The whole enchilada. The full monty. Well, except for the stem area. You slice that off. But the rest – every bit of the rest – goes into a blender that forms a cake batter that tastes more completely of orange than any baked good you’ve ever had. Easiest cake ever? Maybe. Orangiest cake ever? Definitely.

Do you know what putting an entire orange into a cake gives you? It gives you the ultimate orange flavor, that’s what. Because here’s a secret – the highest concentration of orange flavor is actually in the peel, so when you don’t include it in some form, you miss out on bright citrus flavor that you can’t get anywhere else.

By using the whole orange in this cake, you get gentle sweet and juicy orange but also the tangy and bold fragrant flavor of the peel. It’s the complete orange experience wrapped up in one little casual cake. And it’s not even hard to make.

You don’t need a stand mixer or your egg beaters or even a mixing bowl to make this. Nope, you just need your blender! Just slice your orange into wedges, and add it to the blender with some oil, eggs, yogurt, and sugar. Even if you don’t have a high-powered blender, processing the ingredients for three minutes will completely puree the mixture. (No chunks of bitter peel here.)

Add in the flour, baking powder, and salt… blend again, and bake. That’s all there is to this magnificent cake. It’s a moist, laid-back cake that’s bursting with bright orange flavor and it’s so simple that it just may be genius.