Orange Cake Recipe

When ever I make orange Cake I am always reminded of when I was a young girl and my Dad loved Orange cake a lot. Today I'm sharing my go to Easy and Delicious Orange cake Recipe.

Orange cake

Ingredients

125g Softened Butter

3/4 Cup caster Sugar

1 1/2 Cups SR Flour

1/4 cup of milk

1/4 cup of orange juice

2 eggs

1 tbsp finely grated orange rind.

Pre heat your oven to 180 deg and prepare your chosen pan, I typically make this in a loaf tin and I grease and line with baking paper.

Put all the ingredients into the bowl and mix.

This is what the recipe instructs though I personally take care to not let the orange juice and milk mix as in my mind this is just wrong. 

Mix well until all ingredients are thoroughly combined 3 to 5 mins should do it.

Pour into your tin and bake for 35 minutes.

Turn out to cool on a wire rack.

Icing

1 1/2 cups sifted icing sugar

1/3 cup softened butter

I teaspoon finely grated zest ( and more to sprinkle on top if desired )

Orange juice.

Mix all ingredients well and add orange juice until desired consistency is reached around 1 tbsp does it for me. You may need more or less.

I tried this icing for the first time recently and think next time I'll reduce some or all of the butter and substitute with cream cheese for a bit of extra zing. 

When the cake is iced take a break and enjoy some with a Cuppa.

Its delicious. Let me know if you give it a try. ;)

Orange cake

So tell me what do you think about the orange juice and milk, would you separate them as I do or I am being overly cautious?