Not really much of a story behind this one, Raymond’s mum asked me to make another Orange cake after tasting my Chocolate Orange Ring, plus when I actually made the other cake I could only find a huge bag of oranges, most of them are still sitting in the fruit bowl.. How long do oranges last anyway? I have had them about 4 weeks and they seem fine. So if you have some left over oranges or if your lucky enough to have a Orange Tree in your yard here is a great light cake which is great with either custard or Ice cream.
Tangy Orange Sponge
**Adapted from Recipe from Baked and Delicious**
Ingredients
- 175g of unsalted butter – Softened
- 175g of Golden Caster Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 125g of Self Raising Flour
- 1tsp baking powder
- 50g of ground almonds
- 2 Large Oranges (Very thinly sliced)
- Juice of one Small Orange
- 2 tbsp of Mixed Peel
- 4 tbsp of Apricot Jam or Marmalade
You will need
- 1 deep 20″ Round Cake Tin.
- Electric Mixer
Method:
- Beat the sugar and butter together until pale and creamy, add eggs one at a time mixing well after each. You can add some flour between each egg if the mixture starts to curdle. Sieve in the remainder of the flour and baking powder then add the almonds, fold the ingredients together but dont over mix.
- Add the juice of a small orange and the mixed peel and fold in to the batter mix.
- Use oil spray to lightly coat the tin if you are using one, if you use silicone no need to grease. Line the base and sides of the tin with the thinly sliced oranges cut the oranges to fit. You should try and use oranges that dont have too much pith so thinly skinned ones as thick pith will make the overall taste bitter.
- Put the batter into the lined tin and smooth out the top, tap lightly on a hard surface to flatten, ensure the oranges are covered. Bake in a 180°C oven for 30-35 minutes until a skewer comes out clean. Leave in the tin for 10 mins to cool then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- To finish off in a small saucepan heat the jam or marmalade with a few tsp of water and brush over the cake to glaze.
The resulting cake from this is light and delicious with intense orange flavour goes really well with a good vanilla bean ice cream.
Till next time Eat Well!
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This looks perfect Gary! I have been looking for an orange cake recipe….hope you are having a top weekend!
Hi, I’ve just discovered your blog and just wanted to say that this cake looks really impressive with the detail of the oranges. I bet it tastes damn good too!
O… M… G…. that looks incredible and sounds absolutely delicious. Lovely bit of baking there :)
Wow! The cake looks pretty!