Sunday 2 November 2014

Best Ever Orange Cake!

I wanted to bake something for school, and the tart was a little hard to pack in a lunchbox, so I asked my auntie to take it to my Oma who I am sure will appreciate it. This recipe is kind of our house's fall-back recipe, and whenever we want to bake something, but can't decide, we all agree on this. It is an amazingly easy recipe, and tastes great. It's also really good for lunch boxes. It is from the Women's Weekly Everyday Cakes & Cookies. It is the moist orange cake.

Ingredients:
- 150g of butter (softened)
- the zest and juice of 2 large oranges
- 2/3 of a cup of caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/4 cups of self-raising flour
- 1/4 of a cup of milk

How To Make It:
1. Preheat oven to 160˚C, fan forced
2. Grease and line the base of a 20cm round cake pan (make sure it is quite a deep pan)
3. Add all the ingredients together in a large bowl
4. Use an electric mixer, and beat on low speed until combined
5. Increase speed to medium-high and beat for about 3 minutes or until the mixture is changed in colour and smooth
6. Spread into prepared pan and bake for about 45 minutes, or until the top is browning and a skewer inserted comes out clean
7. Leave the cake in the pan for about 2 minutes to cool, and then turn onto a wire rack to cool

Icing (it's a bit makeshift, but tastes good)
1. Put about 2 tablespoons of butter into a medium bowl (add more if you like your icing buttery, like me)
2.Put about 4 tablespoons of icing sugar into the bowl, and mash it up (using a fork) until it is a really rough paste
3. Add in the juice from 1 orange, and stir (add more of each ingredient until it is the right consistency)
4. Spread onto cold cake, and add sprinkles or writing icing, or leave it plain :)

I added those yummy little silver balls on top!

(Also, just so you know, this was supposed to go up last week, but I accidentally saved it as a draft instead of publishing it so sorry about that!)

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