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Okay it’s not truly Daisy’s orange cake as the recipe comes from this fantastic book, The Silver Spoon for Children: Favourite Italian Recipes
but she believes it is and at the minute it is her favourite thing to bake for everyone.
Makes enough for 6-8 people
For the cake:
- 100g unsalted butter plus extra for greasing the cake tin
- 1 orange
- 2 free-range eggs
- 100g golden caster sugar
- 100g icing sugar
- 100g self-raising flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
For the icing:
- 100g icing sugar
- 1 orange
- Turn the oven on to 180°c/ 350°F/Gas Mark 4. Grease a 20cm cake tin-rub a little butter all over the inside.
- Sit the tin on a piece of baking powder and draw around it, then cut out the circle and use it to line the bottom of the tin.
- Cut the orange in half and then squeeze the juice into a measuring jug. You need about 90ml of juice, so if your orange is really juicy and has more juice than that, you could drink the rest.
- Put the butter into a small saucepan and melt over a gentle heat or melt in a small bowl in the microwave. Leave to cool.
- Crack the eggs into a big bowl.
- Add the caster sugar and icing sugar and using a whisk (either a hand whisk or electric whisk) whisk until light and fluffy.
- Stir in the cool melted butter.
- Sift the flour and baking powder onto the egg mixture, pour over the orange juice and carefully mix everything together. Pour the mixture into the cake tin.
- Using oven gloves, put the cake in the oven and bake for 18 minutes. To see if it is cooked, poke a skewer or knife into the middle-it should come out clean. If there is a sticky cake mixture on the skewer, put the cake back into the oven for 3-4 minutes.
- Using oven gloves, take the cake out of the oven. Leave to cool in the tin and then carefully turn the cake out onto a cooling rack so that it is the right way up.
- Make the icing. Cut the orange in half and squeeze out the juice. Sift the icing sugar into a bowl, add the orange juice and mix together.
- Poke a few holes in the cooled cake with a skewer or a fork and then pour the icing over the top of the cake-it will run all over the cake into the holes and down the sides.
This cake has an amazing orange flavour. It’s quite a flat cake-it will rise in the oven, but it wont be big or tall.
Please please please share your pictures with Daisy and I over on instagram by tagging _shelleyloves, hashtag #shelleyloves and let us know if you enjoyed making and eating it, Daisy is super excited that other people want to make (her) cake!
Shelley x
