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Orange Rum Cake for the Monthly Mingle

Coming up next- is something I made for Meeta's Monthly Mingle . Well, there's nothing much happening in India on the football front with the exception of Kolkata -where the 3 chief interests are Phood, Phish and Phootball (meaning food, fish and football) Kindly note that Phood and Phish are lis

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 cup butter *
  • 1/2 cup sugar splenda or (recipe uses 8 sacets of substitute)
  • 1/4 cup orange juice freshly squeezed
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk (made from 2 1/2 tsp low fat curd )
  • 1 tsp orange rind
  • 3 tbsps rum

Instructions
 

  • Pre heat the oven at 400 F/ 200C. Grease a 5" baking tin and keep aside.
  • Sieve the wheat flour and baking powder together and keep aside.
  • Cream the butter and sugar / sugar substitute together in a bowl (mix them together until soft).
  • Add the orange juice, buttermik, rind, rum and what flour mixture. Mix well.
  • Pour batter into greased tin.
  • Bake for 20-25 min at 400 F / 250 C until a tester comes out clean.
  • Cut into 6 wedges.
  • Serve as a dessert with a shot of rum.

Notes

Note:
*recipe says low fat butter- but I haven't come across low fat butter in our grocery stores.
You can skip the rum if you wish and add 3 tbsp of milk instead.
Also, check out the SHF#18- Candy is Dandy but Liquor is quicker.