Orange Madeira Cake Delicious orange-flavoured cake.
Ingredients
- For the cake:
- 180 g butter or margarine
- 180 g sugar
- 3 eggs
- 125 g self raising flour
- 1 T orange juice
- Zest of 1 Medium Orange
- For the icing:
- 200 g icing sugar, sieved
- 2 T fresh orange juice
Method
Cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180 deg C conventional oven. Grease and line 1 x 2lb loaf tin with baking parchment.
- Beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Gradually add the eggs, one at a time, adding a little flour to help prevent curdling. Mix until well combined.
- Fold in the remaining flour, Orange Zest and orange juice. Mix until well combined.
- Bake in the oven for 45 – 50 mins or until baked, testing the centre of the cake with a skewer until it comes out clean.
- Leave in the tin for 10 mins to cool a little, before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Icing:
- Sieve the icing sugar into a bowl, then gradually add the orange juice until you reach a thick spreadable consistency.
- Spread the orange icing over the cooled cake, top with slices of orange.