This Sticky Vegan Orange Cake (The Veg Space) is made with plant-based yoghurt and ground almonds, served with an orange drizzly syrup.
Before cooking, read up on food safety for people & pets (many foods including citrus fruits are unsafe around animal friends). Just bin citrus rind as (along with rhubarb and allium scraps), acids could harm compost creatures.
Oranges only came to England during the 17th century, and only eaten by people who had access to orangeries (big greenhouses). Before that, Queen Eleanor (from Spain) would order oranges to dock at Portsmouth in 1289, as she was homesick for the fruits.
Most oranges come from southern Europe (Pesticide Action Network say oranges (along with grapes) are usually covered in a cocktail of pesticides before arriving on supermarket shelves. So try to choose organic if you can.
Along with standard oranges, you can buy darker richer Spanish blood oranges, and there are also mandarins, clementines and easy-to-peel Japanese satsumas. You can sub blood oranges for recipes, but they will be a different taste and colour. You can even use the rind to make a 5-ingredient whole orange cake.
