Orange Cake Recipe

Lovely orange cake with fresh orange juice.

Cuisine Modern Australian

Keyword cake, Orange cake

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes

Total Time 1 hour

Servings 12 pieces

Ingredients

250 g lightly salted butter at room temperature
250 g caster sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons finely grated orange zest
85 ml of freshly squeezed orange juice
250 g S.R. flour
125 g icing sugar
5 tsp orange juice extra

Instructions

Method

Preheat the oven to 170C. Grease and line a 22cm round cake tin.
Beat the butter and caster sugar together for 5 minutes or until very pale. Add in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add in the orange zest and beat gently. Add the flour and mix in well, then add the orange juice and mix this through.
Spoon the mixture into your prepared tin. Bake in the oven on the middle shelf for 45-50 minutes or until the cake is cooked through.
Leave the cake to cool. Mix the remaining orange juice with the icing sugar and stir until a smooth icing mixture is made. . When cake has cooled pour the icing over the cake.

Recipe Notes

Pop it onto a lovely plate, photograph it 15 times and then eat it. Or is that just me? ;Be careful not too over cook this. You want it to be lovely and moist.