Orange cake

Name: Orange cake
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: Bake
Ingredients: 250.00 g butter; 250.00 ml castor sugar; 3.00 eggs extra-large; 10.00 ml orange zest only; 500.00 ml flour cake; 10.00 ml Baking powder; 2.00 ml salt; 5.00 ml vanilla essence; 60.00 ml orange juice; 80.00 ml poppy seeds; 180.00 ml orange juice; 180.00 ml sugar; 1.00 orange zest only; 0.00 sherry or liqueur

10 servings

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By Food24 November 03 2009

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Ingredients (14)

CAKE

250.00 g	butter
250.00 ml	castor sugar
3.00	eggs — extra-large
10.00 ml	orange — zest only
500.00 ml	flour — cake
10.00 ml	Baking powder
2.00 ml	salt
5.00 ml	vanilla — essence
60.00 ml	orange juice
80.00 ml	poppy seeds

SYRUP

180.00 ml	orange juice
180.00 ml	sugar
1.00	orange — zest only
0.00	sherry — or liqueur

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Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 °C and grease a 23 cm ring cake tin.
CAKE
Cream the butter and castor sugar, add the eggs one by one, beating well after each addition.
Add the remaining ingredients and mix.
Spoon into the prepared tin and bake for about one hour or until a testing skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
SYRUP
Bring all the ingredients for the syrup to the boil and pour over the hot cake.
Leave the cake to cool in the tin.
Slice and arrange the slices on a cake stand.