Lili in the Kitchen - Quest for a healthy-ish cake that tastes like marzipan

I've read that almonds are tremendously nutritious, so it's one of the foods that I'd like to get the kids to eat. I've tried sneaking almond meal into cake and brownie and pudding recipies, but it just tends to roughen the texture of things. The kids do love marzipan (what sane healthy person doesn't?), and for a long time I've been tricking the kids into eating healthy foods by using them furtively as cake ingredients, so I started looking for a cake recipe that has almond meal and tastes like marzipan. One would think that shouldn't be difficult, but it appears that marzipan isn't the flavour of the month, and doesn't come up the online data base of popular Australian recipes that I usually use. So then I thought, look up the company that makes almond essence. Good idea. I found a cake recipe that contains lots of almond meal, fresh orange, lots of eggs, but no butter, marg or oil and very little flour. It's nutrition ingeniously disguised as a cake, and the family all like it. Two tips for making this recipe: you can substitute real brandy for the brandy essence, and it would probably still have plenty of flavour without either, and even with a lined tin the bottom tends to burn, so you may wish to add 2 layers of brown paper or grease-proof paper to the base.

Almond and Orange Cake
from Queen Essenceshttp://www.queenessences.com.au/recipes/show.php?recipeid=10