Orange Cake

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I had a couple of oranges from my fruit and vegetable delivery this week so I though I would make some cupcakes to take to work tomorrow. I went to my trusty PMWU Cookbook to find this recipe. It is great cookbook and hasn't stirred me wrong yet. The recipe was for a single cake but I just made the mixture into 18 cupcakes.

Preheat your oven to 220 degrees Celsius. Line the cupcake pans or grease a 20 centimeter cake tin.

Melt the butter in the microwave. Allow to cool while you prepare the other ingredients. In a large bowl or your stand mixer place all the other ingredients. Add the cooled butter and mix well for 3 minutes.

Pour batter into your prepared tin. Place in the oven and reduce the temperature to 175 degrees Celsius. If making cupcakes cook for 10 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 160 degrees Celsius and cook for another 8-10 minutes.

If making 1 cake cook for 30 minutes at 175 degrees Celsius. Then reduce the temperature to 160 degree Celsius and cook for 20-25 minutes.

Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a wire rack while you make the icing.

To make the icing place all the ingredients in the stand mixer and mix until light and fluffy. If the icing is a little thin just add some more icing sugar. Pipe the icing onto your chilled cupcakes or spread over your cake with a large spatula.


Until next time, Happy cooking, Kate.

 ***Ingredients 

 Cake 

  • 125 g butter
  • 225 grams self raising flour
  • 250 grams caster sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 60 ml milk
  • 2 tablespoons orange juice
  • 2 teaspoons grated orange rind
Icing
  • 4 cups icing sugar
  • 110 grams butter, at room temperature
  • 1 tablespoon orange juice
  • 1 teaspoon orange rind

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