Make orange cake!
If the mess we made making this cake is any indication of the amount of fun we had making it, well then this was one fun cake to make.
We chose a whole orange recipe, which basically means that you process up the whole orange, skin, seeds and all. Which all made perfect sense to me at the start, but I don't have a food processor, I have a stick blender. So much to the boys delight, we spent half an hour jamming the stick blender into three cut up oranges, in an entertaining attempt to puree them.
While I don't think we quite made a puree any self respecting baby would eat, we did manage to jam those oranges up into a pulp, and invite our neighbours over for afternoon tea...
Yum.
I followed the recipe fairly loosely, doubling the quantities because when I make cake, I make cake.
Whole Orange Cake
1 orange
180ml melted butter
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups self raising flour
Icing
2 1/2 cups icing sugar
2 tablespoons melted butter
orange juice and zest
Method
Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
Process the whole orange in your food processor. Or really enjoy your experience and take your time trying to do it with a stick blender. Add all other ingredients and mix, pop into pre-greased and floured cake tin into preheated oven.
Cook for 45 minutes.
To make the icing, mix it all together adding orange juice until you have the consistency you want.
Invite the people over who gave you the oranges, and offer them some cake and a cup of tea.
16 comments:
That is one easy cake recipe! I am not a sugar baby, but even your orange cake has me doing a little bit of drooling, Ali. I may have to leave now lest I embarrass myself further.
I make this one all the time, but unlike you I have a processor...lol..much easier I would imagine than a stick blender, but uno, thats what makes some mums cooler than others....cos, mums with stick blenders are cool...the more mess the better, the more laughing about the mess the better, and cool mums dont mind the mess...so BRING ON THE MESS...
Daffodil I only really make one bowl cake recipes, the boys really do enjoy helping so less fuss is better... and besides, in my opinion cake is cake!
Suzanne, it was kind of fun... but I think the cake would have been better if all the pulp had really been pureed... a friend of mine makes a delicious one where she boils the oranges first - I think that might be a bit more stick blender suitable!
Photos are great, and I'd love a bit of your cake and a cuppa right about now!
yum cake cute kids
We love orange cake in this house, especially with a nice cup of tea.
Cook made that one where you boil the oranges first...but yours looks more cakey...less dense. Mmmm! Why didn't you send me a slice?
Yeah, and the boys ARE cute and that first photo of the orange made me want to like the screen.
That was LICK, not LIKE...though I did like it enough to want to lick it.
Well, blending the oranges may have been a challenge, but your boys look pretty happy with the result. Marmalade next??
I love cooking with the boys I know the kitchen will be a mess afterwards but they do make cooking fun.
Cake looks great and from the smiles lots of fun making it (and eating it)!
Bet that cake disappeared a lot quicker than it took to make. Looks delicious.
I like the sound of that cake - real citrus flavour and good vit c :D
I might try this one with the mandarin surplus we have at the moment. Looks great - and loving the looks on those scrumptious faces!
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