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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 30 Minutes |
Ready In: 30 Minutes Servings: 810 |
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I love orange cake for its citrusy taste .Frost the cake with your favourite frosting. Decorate with orange slices . Ingredients:
200 gm butter,soft |
1 cup powdered sugar |
4 eggs |
1 3/4 cup flour |
2 tsp baking powder |
grated zest of 1 orange |
for syrup |
200 ml orange juice |
2 tbsp sugar |
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 180C. Butter and line a round cake tin with baking parchment.
2. In a large bowl,beat butter until creamy.
3. Add sugar and beat until fluffy and light.
4. Beat in the eggs gradually.
5. Add orange zest and mix.
6. In another bowl,sift flour and baking powder.
7. Fold the flour into the creamed mix.
8. Spoon the mix into the prepared tin and bake for 25-30 minutes.
9. While the cake is baking, make the syrup by putting orange juice and sugar into a pan, bring them gently to the boil, stirring
10. until the sugar has dissolved. Simmer for 3 minutes.
11. Turn out the cake on rack to cool.
12. Pierce holes in the cake with a skewer while still warm and pour
13. the syrup over it.
14. Leave to cool, spooning the syrup over the cake until it is all soaked up.
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