The first cake I ever made was an orange butter cake when I was twelve. Here, instead of a shiny orange icing , I would like to use a luscious orange syrup. The topping makes it suitable to serve it as a sophisticated dessert :)
Ingredients :
4 Large oranges
85gms of golden castor sugar
1 Big bowl of vanilla custard ( chilled )
For the cake:
100gms butter
175gms golden castor sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
142 ml soured cream ( carton )
140gms plain flour
1tsp baking powder
1) Finely grate zest of one orange and set aside. Squeeze out the juice from this orange and from the second orange as well. Put the juice in a measuring cup and top it up to come up to175ml with cold water. Set aside.
2) Cut the tops and bottoms off the remaining oranges and discard. Slice the oranges horizontally into rings/ rounds. Remove the pips and put them in a frying pan and cover it with cold water. Bring it to boil and simmer it for 5 minutes. Take out the slices and drain . ( this prevents the oranges go bitter ).
3) Return the orange slices in a pan , pour the measured juice and water and simmer for 5 mts with sugar. Set aside and let it cool. The syrup should become slightly thick...like a thickened syrup !
4) Arrange the orange rounds in the bottom of a greased cake tin. Pour two-thirds of the syrup evenly over the slices.
5) Preheat oven to 160' C , CONVENTIONAL 180'C ----Beat sugar and butter in a bowl until light and fluffy. Tip in the eggs , vanilla essence, reserved orange zest and the soured cream. Beat all of it onec again. Sift flour and baking powder , then fold it into the mixture using a metal spoon..
6) Spoon cake mixture over orange slices and syrup and spread evenly with the back of spoon. Bake for 35-40 mts until pale golden and , till a skewer comes out clean from the centre. Cool it for 10 mts. Reheat the reserved syrup just before serving so that it becomes runny...drizzle over the cake. Serve warm with cold custard .
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Hi Red, Thnx for dropping by....Its really delicious :))
Keep coming plz...
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Hi kalyani,
Looks smart now I guess...All credit goes to my teacher ie. YOU ! Thnx a million hey ! Yeah, I wanted to attach the pic...hence it was done very hastily....
Yes, you could do without eggs ( omit eggs totally) and use half can of condensed milk... accordingly reduce the portion of castor sugar considerably :)
But without eggs...the cake will be a little moist
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Hi Aditi, Seeing you after a long long time here !! Where were you ? Probably...u've been busy :)
This one got featured also :)
Great..... am glad that you took the trouble of preserving it at least. Do try it out...it actually tastes good...very good as a after dinner sweet dish !
Thanx for your nice comment...
Am happy to see you .
Do keep coming ...
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Hi vijay,
Thank you very much for coming and for the reco also ! Am quite surprised to see your comment...You said you are going to bake this during the wkend .Really ??? Am so happy :)) My husband can never think of cooking...baking...infact, he has probably never entered my kitchen . So, am quite impressed :))
Do keep coming...
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Dear dear Bhavnaaaa,
Am sooo gladdd to sseee you here ! Oh, how I loved reading your comment.!!! Ammm waitinggg anxxxiouslyyyyy for you to come !! In case you decide to come...I am keeping one slice just on the top of my fridge...take itttttttttt ! Its yours :)))
Try this one and do let me know .......And do keep coming with your lazyyyy fingersss
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Hi Lakshmi....awww, what happened ? The oven not working or what !!!
Never mind...send it to the service centre asap ...and get it repaired...must try this one out. Do let me know after you have baked one :)
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yummylicious !
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Hi nidhana,
Thanks a lot for coming....O, why don't you make a pineapple syrup and pour it over your pineapple cake ???? It should taste very good. Try it and let me know .Of course, you must try this one as well. Do kp me posted
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Hi Ranjini,
Thnx a bunch for coming hey! Plz donot use normal sugar...the cake will get extremely moist...might just crumble while slicing. Use normal castor sugar .... Should get it easily there.
With pleasure, you may mail it ....the recipe once posted.......is urs :))) Infact , I am happy that u want to kp it with u for future reference
Do keep coming ...
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Hi Komlet,
! I love that fellow :)))
Thanx sooo much for all your good words hey! Am so happy
I am becoming lazy too....but, my son-in-law kps me ticking. Whenever he comes......he likes something interesting.Likes me trying out new recipes...dusn't mind being a guinea pig
Thnx so much for coming and do kp coming !
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