Preheat the oven to 175°C/350ºC / 390ºF.
Grate the peel of the orange and put this in a saucepan. Squeeze the juice of the orange and add to the peel. Remove any seeds. Add the raisins and heat the pan on low heat for 5 minutes. Let it cool down.
ix in a bowl the spices: cinnamon, cardamom, coriander, ginger powder, nutmeg, ground cloves.
Add the flour, the baking powder, the dark caster sugar, Chinese ginger, the apple syrup, apple sauce and the soy milk.
Add the orange mixture and mix everything with a whisk into a smooth batter.
Poor the batter in a greased cake tin.
Now make yourself a cup of tea and put the cake in the oven for approx 1 hour.
Let the cake cool down for 10 minutes before you take it out of the cake tin (if you can manage that because omg this smells so heavenly)!