Orange Tea Cake
Ingredients:
- Ingredients - cake
- 1 large orange (zest and juice)
- 2 eggs
- 125 gm softened unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup castor sugar
- 225 grms self raising flour
- Ingredients - icing
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon melted butter
- 1 tablespoon fresh orange juice (from an extra orange)
- 1 tablespoon orange flavoured liquor
- 1 tablespoon chopped candied/sugared orange peel.
Method:
- Pre heat oven to 190º, butter and line a 20cm ring tin. I only have a square 20cm.
- Combine all cake ingredients in a food processor and blend for two minutes until smooth and creamy.
- Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 30-35 minutes.
- Leave in tin for five minutes before turning onto a wire rack.
- Cool before icing.
- Method - icing
- Beat all ingredients until smooth (NOT the peel).
- Stir in the peel.
- Warm icing over hot water until it thins and pour over the cake.
- Big shout out to Jules of the Colbo Pub. ‘Thanks for the oranges. Best tasting oranges!’
- Bon appetit.
- Pauline