Real Orange Cake

Name: Real Orange Cake
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 1 large orange; 185g unsalted butter, melted; 3 eggs; 2 tsp Gewürzhaus Mixed Spice; 1 cup caster sugar; 1 ½ cups of self-raising flour, sifted; Juice of 1 orange; 1 cup icing sugar

Easy

1.25mins

Real Orange Cake

Servings

Prep Time

25 minutes

Cook Time

50 minutes

Ingredients

1 large orange
185g unsalted butter, melted
3 eggs
2 tsp Gewürzhaus Mixed Spice
1 cup caster sugar
1 ½ cups of self-raising flour, sifted

For the icing

Juice of 1 orange
1 cup icing sugar

Directions

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Coarsely chop and puree the whole orange in a food processor. Transfer to a bowl and add melted butter, eggs, mixed spice and sugar. Mix well.
Sift the flour into the mixture and beat it well. Pour mixture into a greased 18cm loaf pan.
Bake at 180°C for 40 minutes. To test whether your cake is ready, insert a wooden skewer into the centre – if it comes out clean, the cake is baked. Remove from the oven and transfer to a rack to cool.
To make the icing, combine the orange juice one tablespoon at a time with 1 cup of icing sugar and mix until it is a thick pouring consistency. You may not need all the juice. Pour generously over the cooled cake

Comments

Great recipe and the cake was delicious and moist. Followed recipe but I reduced the sugar down to 3/4 cup, the cake was still sweet enough and the texture was still very nice. The orange I used was quite sweet which may have helped. I will try and reduce sugar a little more next time I bake this. I also replaced spice with the ‘apple spice’ mixture as someone had mentioned, as it was what I had, will use this going forward too.

Made this on the weekend using the apple cake spice instead and it was delicious. Highly recommend it and the measurements were accurate.

Love this recipe.
Also tried this recipe with substituting orange for Lemon and came out just as good.

To Sally Joy, I have another orange cake recipe and the butter is 200gms, I cook it for 1 hour at 160c in fan forced oven. But I make a round cake not a loaf. I am sure the 185gms of sugar would be correct.

This took much longer than 40 mins to cook, more like 80mins. I wonder if the quantity of butter is right? Should it be 85grams not 185grams. It was still delicious.