Sticky Saucy Orange Cake

Today was one of those rare days I felt like baking a cake, mostly fuelled by a disappointing purchase of a bag of not very juicy oranges from Tesco. I couldn’t bring myself to throw them away so I hunted about for a recipe to use them up. Well worth the effort…

Ingredients for cake

3/4 cup of butter

1.5 cups caster sugar

1.5 tbsp grated orange rind (I calculated this as the rind of 1 orange)

4 eggs

1/2 cup plain yoghurt

3 tbsp orange juice

2 cups plain flour

1/2 tsp bicarb of soda

1. Preheat oven to 180c. Grease a cake tin.
2. Cream butter & sugar til fluffy, mix in orange rind.
3. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well.
4. Mix yoghurt & orange juice – add to mixture and blend well.
5. Sieve flour & bicarb into mixture and stir to combine until smooth.
6. Pour into cake tin.
7. Bake for about 40 mins. Stand in cake tin for 5 mins then turn out onto wire rack to cool slightly.

Ingredients for sauce

1 cup fresh orange juice

3 tbsp fresh lemon juice

1 tbsp grated orange or lemon rind (or a mix)

1/2 cup of sugar

…I added a big spoonful of delicious chilli orange marmalade made by my talented friend Mrs. Chutney

Mix all the sauce ingredients in a pan. Bring to the boil and boil for 5 mins. Then pour over the cake while still hot.

We tucked into a slice while it was still hot and added a dollop of honey and ginger ice cream. Gorgeous