Orange Cake

Whole Orange Cake: Beautifully baked tea cake with thin layer of Orange icing..soft, moist, scrumptious and melt in mouth. Smell of orange filled whole house with divine smell while baking this cake :)

moreover it's an easy one pot , can't go wrong recepi

Ingredients

• 125 gms butter melted and cooled
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1/4 cups peeled deseeded and pureed orange or you can use orange juice
• 2 egg see note at the end for eggless rcp
• 3/4 cups caster sugar 
• 1 1/2 cups self-raising flour or (same amount plain flour+3 tsp baking powder)
• 1 tbs orange rind zested 

Orange Icing 

• 1/2 cups butter softened 
• 1 cups icing sugar sifted 
• 2 tbs orange juice to taste 
• 1/2 tsp orange rind zested
• sliced orange for garnishing optional

Method

Preheat oven at 180 C and grease a loaf tin.

Take melted butter,orange rind, pureed orange, sugar, milk and eggs in a bowl and whip for 2 mins.

fold in flour and mix well and again whip for 3 mins.

Pour batter in prepared loaf tin bake for 35-40 mins or until toothpick comes out clean.

take out cake and cool on wire rack until completely cooled.

This can be served at this stage if you do not prefer to have icing.

For icing mix all ingredients for icing and spread on cooled cake. Garnish with orange slices and serve.

Please leave comment if you like the recepi or have any question. Happy Cooking :)

Note:

For eggless version of same recepi instead of eggs use 1 Tbs corn flour added in 1/4 cup of milk and 1/4 tsp of  baking soda.