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Orange Cake Recipe


ORANGE CAKE Recipe
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1 year, 4 months ago
Rich and syruppy cake, fantastic as a dessert or for that sweet tooth
Prep:120m Cook:60m Servings:12

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Ingredients
  • 300g Margarine (and not lite or non fat)
  • 800g Sugar
  • 16 Eggs
  • 800g Flour
  • 30g Baking Powder
  • 5g Salt
  • 5 Medium Oranges
  • Fresh Orange Juice
  • Extra Sugar
  • 250ml Rum (optional - but now and then I replace it with another liquid for variation)
  • 250ml Milk
  • 300g Sugar (for syrup)
  • Orange peels (For syrup)
  • Saffron Strands (For Syrup)
  • 1lt Water (for syrup)
  • Gelatine

Directions
  1. Cream margarine and 800g sugar
  2. Add eggs one by one, working each one in thoroughly
  3. Mix flour, baking powder and salt.
  4. Add this to the egg mix
  5. Boil oranges for 2 hours, replacing the water thrice
  6. Cut in half and remove the seeds
  7. Liquidize skin and all
  8. Add enough sugar and fresh orange juice until it is of amousse consistency
  9. Add the egg-flour mixture with rum
  10. Mix well
  11. Add milk
  12. Mix well
  13. Pour into a greased ban and bake at 180deg C for 1 hour
  14. SYRUP: (I make this whilst the cake is in the oven)
  15. Blanch orange peel cut in thin strips in water for half an hour.
  16. Replace water and simmer for another half an hour on low heat
  17. Melt 300g sugar in 1lt water and bring to a boil
  18. Add some orange peel and saffron strands
  19. Boil on high until it starts to thicken.
  20. Add some gelatine
  21. Let it cool a bit before you pour syrup over hot cake

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chefmeow 1 year, 4 months ago said:
The picture of this is so beautiful and it sounds decadent. We love orange cake, so this will be on this weekends cake menu. Great post. You have my 5.


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