Desserts Recipes - Orange Cake Recipe

  
 

Desserts Recipes - Orange Cake Recipe

Ingredients

Serves 8   

  • 225g/8oz self-raising flour

  • 50g/2oz custard powder

  • 300g/11oz caster sugar

  • 75g/3oz butter (chopped and softened, plus extra for greasing)

  • 3 eggs

  • 2 teaspoons finely grated orange zest

  • 225ml/8fl oz orange juice

For the orange butter cream:

  • 75g/3oz icing sugar

  • 100g/4oz butter (softened)

  • 1 tablespoon orange juice

  • 1 teaspoon finely grated orange zest

Method:

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas mark 4. Lightly grease a 23cm/9in round cake tin and line the base with baking parchment.

  2. Sift the flour and custard powder into a large bowl and add the sugar, butter, eggs, orange zest and juice. Beat with an electric beater for 4 minutes or until the mixture is smooth.

  3. Spoon the mixture into the tin and smooth the surface. Bake for 50 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the centre of the cake.

  4. Leave the cake in the tin for 5 minutes before turning out on to a wire rack to cool.

  5. For the orange butter cream, beat all the ingredients in a small bowl with an electric beater until smooth and creamy. Spread evenly over the cooled cake.