Twinings Orangey Blast Cake and a mistake that tasted so good
22.10.2010 Edited to add another recipe of this cake with a mixture of whole wheat, cornmeal and rice flour. [L-Rice flour cake, Top- AP flour orange cake, Bottom - Gorgeous crisp crust of rice flour cake] Sorry again for the long interval. I have finally settled down into a new city and settled en
Ingredients
- 1 - 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp soda bicarb
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup sunflower oil
- 3/4 cup caster sugar
- 1/4 cup yogurt
- 1/4 cup orange juice freshly squeezed
- 1/2 cup orange tea strong
- 1 tbsp orange zest , plus some more cut up peels .
- 1/4 cup raisins chopped up .
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C (350F). Grease an 8 inch round baking tin.
- Sift together the flour, soda bicarb and baking powder.
- In another bowl, cream together the oil, sugar and yogurt.
- Add the juice, tea, orange zest, flour and raisins - mix well and pour into the prepared pan.
- Bake for about 35 minutes or till the cake tests done. After some ten minutes, remove onto a wire rack and cut when completely cooled. Serve with tea :).
Notes
After having baked this cake twice in two days, I have nearly memorized the ingredients - which means I'm going to making this more often!.
This is Shammi's second cake recipe I have tried this month, the first one was Eggless Carrot Banana cake that I selected to bake for my son's first birthday on 4 December. He ate a whole slice, and was willing to eat more had we let him, which leads me to believe that he quite liked it :).
Cya around folks, this blog is going to alive and kicking now on! [Now that I have made this announcement publicly, I had better live up to it :P.