By request, Mum’s Orange Cake Recipe:
6 oz plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
5 oz caster sugar
1 large orange (zest and 5 Tbsp juice)
2 large eggs, seperated
5 Tbsp butter, melted
Sift all dry ingredients into a bowl and add the orange zest.
Melt butter, cool.
Add egg yolks and orange juice. Mix.
Add to dry ingredients and beat well to smooth batter.
Beat egg whites until stiff and fold lightly into batter.
Bake at 180 deg. C in a greased ring tin for, um, until cooked!
Ice with some yummy icing made with butter and orange juice and zest. (No recipe for this - we do it differently everytime!)
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November 14, 2006 at 8:17 am
Meganhttp://www.scentofwater.wordpress.com/
Oh Kirsty, I’m supposed to be on a diet. This is Not Helping.
Also, I’ve got myself a new cyber-home, so just click the link and come and say hi sometime. But leave the orange cake at home, otherwise I just might eat the whole jolly thing.
November 14, 2006 at 10:26 am
velcro
that sounds rather delicious! I shall have to make it sometime with the FB - he likes baking cakes, and eating them too!
November 14, 2006 at 3:36 pm
Hedgehog
Thanks!!
November 16, 2006 at 1:38 pm
Suzi-k
oh dear, to be outdone by a man, and at baking at that! By pure coincidence i also baked an orange cake last weekend, but perhaps the less said about that, the better! For years I have joked that i don’t bake because the family will need a stomach pump if i do, so what possessed me to try again, i don’t know, but i think i will place an order with Peter the next time i feel like orange cake!