JAMMY ORANGE CAKE
I love orange and lemon cakes. This cake uses a whole orange, which is used without cooking. It also has marmalade in the cake batter and glaze, giving the cake a lovely "jammy" flavour, hence the name.
It's a super easy and quick cake, made entirely in the food processor. Saves on washing up too!
The resulting cake tastes great and looks pretty enough to grace any afternoon tea table.
Cake
180g butter
1 large orange
180g caster sugar
3 free-range eggs at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
200g self-raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon good quality marmalade
Orange Glaze
150g icing sugar
Juice of half an orange
Glacé orange slices or fresh flowers to decorate, optional
Preheat oven to 190° C, 170° C Fan. Grease a 20cm springform pan. Line the base of the pan with baking paper.
Melt the butter in the microwave or a saucepan on the stovetop.
Cut off the stem section of the orange. Chop the orange into large chunks, including the skin. Put the chunks into a food processor and blitz until pureed, about a minute. Add the melted butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla to the processor and process till combined. Add the self-raising flour, baking powder, salt and marmalade and blitz until just combined.
Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 35-40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool for 10 minutes. Run a knife around the pan ring to loosen the cake from the pan. After another 10 minutes, remove the ring and take the cake off the base, placing it onto a serving plate.
To make the glaze, add enough icing sugar to the orange juice to make a drippable icing. With a palette knife or spoon, spread the glaze over the cake, letting it drip down the sides.
Serve as is or decorate with whatever you fancy – I love fresh flowers or glacé orange.