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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
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Ingredients Method Notes

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 .

Method
 

  1. Preheat the oven to 180C (350F). Grease an 8 inch round baking tin.
  2. Sift together the flour, soda bicarb and baking powder.
  3. In another bowl, cream together the oil, sugar and yogurt.
  4. Add the juice, tea, orange zest, flour and raisins - mix well and pour into the prepared pan.
  5. 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.