Orange Spice Cake

Ingredients

    * 3 3/4 cups sifted cake flour
    * 2 tbs baking powder
    * 4 tsp nutmeg
    * 2 tbs cinnamon
    * 4 tsp allspice
    * 1 tsp salt
    * 1 cup butter, at room temperature
    * 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
    * 5 large egg yolks
    * 1 1/4 cups water
    * 2 tbs vanilla
    * 2 medium oranges, finely grated zest of
    * 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans (6 oz)
    * 1 cup dried currants
    * 5 large egg whites

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 ° degrees. Butter the bundform. Sift together flour, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, and salt; set aside.

Cream butter while gradually adding sugar and beat until smooth and lemon colored. Beat in egg yolks one at a time. Alternately beat in flour mixture and water, blending well. Add vanilla, orange zest, pecans, and currants.

In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until stiff but not dry; fold into batter. Pour into bundform and bake until cake tests done and is beginning to pull away from sides of pan (55- 75 minutes). Cool in pan for 20 minutes and then remove to finish cooling on a wire rack.

Serve dusted with powdered sugar.