The cake in question is an orange cake - a soft, subtle sponge, sandwiched together with buttercream, and finished off with icing and orange zest. Upon finding this recipe in one of my many cookbooks I was instantly struck with the urge to make it! It is truly beautiful and (oddly enough for cake) extremely refreshing.
So if the rain is getting you down, create your own sunshine and make this beautiful orange cake!
The Ingredients:
Butter, golden caster sugar, plain flour, eggs, and oranges. (Plus some icing sugar for later on.)
Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Then add the zest of one orange and mix together.
Next add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
Finally, carefully fold in the flour - don't over-mix!
Spoon the mixture into prepared round cake tins (once again I am showing my love for all things silicone!) and make them as even as possible - no one wants a lopsided cake!
Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes, until nice and golden, and then leave to cool slightly before removing from the tins and allowing them to cool completely.
When the cakes are cold, make up the buttercream. Whisk together butter and icing sugar, and then add orange zest (half an orange) and 15ml of orange juice - you want the buttercream to remain fairly thick.
Spread the butter cream over the lower half of the cake...
...and sandwich the two halves together.
Then make up the icing for the top of the cake by mixing orange juice with icing sugar.
The icing should be thick but still runny so it can be poured over the cake and able to run off down the sides.
Once the icing is on, finish the cake off with some freshly grated orange zest and there you have it!
Doesn't it just make you want to smile and think thoughts of sunny days!
As a bit of a tip, I keep this cake in the fridge. It makes it into more of a gateau and becomes a perfect pudding because it is so refreshing!
Hope you keep reading!
Kate
xxx
Hope you keep reading!
Kate
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