Easy orange cake with orange icing

Jon
Jon @cook_23800007

I'm back on a baking kick so I thought I'd share this. This is a found recipe so I can only claim credit for the whipped cream dollop and mint leaf, though I have been known to serve it with raspberry puree as well. Oh, the original recipe called for self-raising flour instead of APF but I only have APF so I have included the baking powder and salt; if you use self-raising flour, do NOT add the salt or baking powder.

Easy orange cake with orange icing

I'm back on a baking kick so I thought I'd share this. This is a found recipe so I can only claim credit for the whipped cream dollop and mint leaf, though I have been known to serve it with raspberry puree as well. Oh, the original recipe called for self-raising flour instead of APF but I only have APF so I have included the baking powder and salt; if you use self-raising flour, do NOT add the salt or baking powder.

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Ingredients

15 mins prep, 30-40 cook
Depends on how greedy they are
  1. Cake
  2. 1 1/2 cupsall-purpose flour
  3. 2 1/4 tspbaking powder
  4. 3/8 tspsalt (just under a 1/2 tsp)
  5. 1/2 cup(also known as 1 stick or 125g) butter, softened
  6. 3/4 cupcaster sugar
  7. 1/4 cupmilk
  8. 1/4 cuporange juice
  9. 1 tbsorange zest
  10. Icing
  11. 1/3 cupbutter, softened
  12. 1 1/2 cupsconfectioner's sugar, sifted
  13. 2 tbsorange juice (or more, if you like)
  14. 1/2 tsporange zest

Cooking Instructions

15 mins prep, 30-40 cook
  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 180C. Grease either a 20x10cm loaf pan or a 20 cm round tin and set aside (note: I've only made this in a loaf pan).

  2. 2

    Mix the flour, baking powder, and salt together thoroughly, then sift into a large mixing bowl.

  3. 3

    Add all the other ingredients in with the sifted flour and stir until smooth.

  4. 4

    Pour into the loaf pan and bake between 30 and 40 minutes (my oven is small so a tester knife came out clean after about 32 minutes or so).

  5. 5

    Put on a wire rack to cool.

  6. 6

    Once the cake is cool, mix together the icing ingredients and, well, ice the cake, of course.

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