MOIST ORANGE CAKE

This delicious cake is rich and full of flavours.
This quick orange cake is yummy without the frosting.
I sometimes just sprinkle icing sugar on the top.

Ingredients:

Plain flour : 170g
Baking powder : 1 1/2tsp
Salt : 1/8tsp
Butter at room temperature : 115g
Castor sugar : 115g
Grated rind of one large Orange
Eggs : 2 at room temperature
Milk : 2tbsp

For syrup and Decoration:
Sugar : 115g
Fresh orange juice : 250ml

Method:


1. Preheat oven at 180˚C/ 350F.


2. Grease and line 18cm square cake tin / 9inch round pan and keep aside.


3. Sift the flour, salt and baking powder thrice.


4. With an electric mixer, cream the butter until soft. Add the sugar and orange rind and continue beating until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, 1 at a time. Add milk and vanilla essence and continue beating.


5. Spoon into the cake tin and bake until the cake pulls away from the sides, about 25minutes. Remove from the oven but leave in the tin.


6. Meanwhile, for the syrup, dissolve the sugar in the orange juice over a low heat. continue stirring for 10minutes. Then let the syrup cool.


7. Prick the cake all over with a fine skewer. Pour the syrup over the hot cake. It may seem at first that there is too much syrup for the cake to absorb, bu it will soak it all up. Unmould when completely cooled and decorate with small triangles of orange slices arranged on top or with fresh orange icecream.