Orange cake

Name: Orange cake
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 21/4 cups all purpose flour; 6 large eggs plus an extra egg white; 11/2 cup fine sugar; 1 tbsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp salt; 2 tbsp grated Orange zest; 1/2 cup vegetable oil; 3/4 cup freshly squeezed Orange juice; 1 tsp vanilla extract

Awuor Eve @cook_13291281

My son and my family love cakes and nothing brings joy like getting them to enjoy the best.This recipe is easy and now they want me to bake it daily

Awuor Eve @cook_13291281

My son and my family love cakes and nothing brings joy like getting them to enjoy the best.This recipe is easy and now they want me to bake it daily

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Ingredients

21/4 cupsall purpose flour
6large eggs plus an extra egg white
11/2 cupfine sugar
1 tbspbaking powder
1/2 tspsalt
2 tbspgrated Orange zest
1/2 cupvegetable oil
3/4 cupfreshly squeezed Orange juice
1 tspvanilla extract

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Steps

1

Measure your ingredients.
2

Separate eggs and put the yolks in one bowl with the whites in another.
3

Preheat your oven to 170 degrees Celsius and prepare a 10 inch baking tin
4

Place flour,sugar(set aside 1/4 cup of sugar),salt,Orange zest and baking powder into a bowl and mix well using wire whisk or wooden spoon.
5

Make a well in the flour mixture and add yolks,oil,Orange juice and vanilla.beat until smooth using a wire whisk for about a minute.
6

In a separate bowl,whisk the egg whites until soft peaks then gradually add the sugar you had set aside beating until stiff peaks.
7

Using a rubber spatula or whisk fold in the egg whites gently to the batter in 3 portions being careful not to deflate the batter.
8

Once well mixed,pour your batter into your prepared tin and then using a skewer gently stir the batter to remove air bubbles.then bake for 50 -60 minutes or until knife,skewer or toothpick comes out clean.
9

Let it cool for about 10 minutes in the tin before removing from the tin.
10

Enjoy