Another week, another baking session. This cake is very moist and zingy with orange as you make it using the whole fruit, skin and everything. It’s also very simple as there’s no strenuous mixing involved.
The original recipe was in cups, but being a British baker, the inaccuracy of filling measuring vessels makes me nervous, so I have given a weight translation based on my cup measuring last night.
Today I topped this with a couple of candles for little Lollipop who was two, and we sang her Happy Birthday at Cake and Chat (the school mums coffee morning that I hold). I don’t think she actually ate any of the cake (more for us mums…), as it doesn’t really have enough butter icing for smaller people, but she seemed to enjoy blowing the candles out. This cake would also be good served warm with cream as a dessert.
Ingredients
1 orange, including the skin
180g melted butter or soft marg
3 eggs
1 cup/220g caster sugar
1½ cups/210g self-raising flour
Put the marg in a microwave or on the stove to gently melt. Whilst that’s on, blitz the orange in a blender, having chopped it first so you can remove the pips and that white pith in the middle. I use the mini chopper that came with my stick blender.
Put the melted marg and the pureed orange in a mixing bowl and stir in all the other ingredients to make quite a sloppy batter. Pop in a greased and/or lined 8″ cake tin and bake for 40-45 minutes at 180°C (Gas 4).
My original recipe came with an icing made with icing sugar, orange juice and zest and melted butter. If you like your cake very sweet feel free…
This sounds absolutely wonderful – and so easy too. I must give it a go! Something to take to one of our parish events that needs cake (they all need cake, don’t they?!)
hopeeternal
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Where did it come from by the way? (Found something suspiciously similar at http://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipe/Whole-Orange-Cake-L2555.html
which I think could be the same one?!
Thanks!
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I did find it online, but I’m not sure whether that was the source or not! It was a few months ago now. I’d had a whole orange cake recipe before, but it included ground almonds and I was after something without the nuts, as I’d run out!
I have a large orange sat on our breakfast bar…and a printer on my computer…I shall see what happens.
Thanks you
My printer runs better on toner. If the fruit works please let us know.
Am i being dumb, or is your conversion into grams for 1 1/2 cups of flour less than the conversion for 1 cup of sugar? Excuse me if I am; your lemonies recipe was so delicious I’d like to give this a go, but I’m not convinced about the quantities?!?!
Although presumably it’s to do with density rather than weight? Maybe it makes sense now…
You’re right Sarah – flour has a higher volume/weight ratio than sugar. I used to approximate 1oz sugar to a level tablespoon and 1oz flour to a heaped tablespoon when I was a student without baking scales.
Fab! And I’m even more delighted to find that I have 2 oranges that need using up in the fruit bowl, without having to go out for one! Thanks x
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Thanks for the wonderful recipe, as I have said before. I have now added it to my own blog and you should get the inevitable pingback!
So glad you enjoyed the conference again this year. A couple of friends go most years and I have heard good things about it.
Blessings!
hopeeternal
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Thanks for the links/pingbacks! Have kept one and deleted the rest – glad you enjoy the eclectic nature of the blog 🙂
No problem, Amanda. I didn’t expect you to keep them all, but wanted to put in proper links. I am planning to re-post the ham recipe shortly and hope to get round to making the others eventually. It’s good to get quick ideas from what sounds like a similarly busy kitchen and household.
Blessings!
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Discovered your recipe on thursday, baked it for my family yesterday, and it was a hit, absolutely delicious!
Reblogged this on katzideas and commented:
This is an easy orange cake
I am so pleased I have stumbled upon this recipe, I have cooked it several times, using wholemeal SR when I had run out of the regular stuff, and as a loaf, both equally good, it’s a bit of a family favourite.
Lynda 🙂