Orange cake recipe – free easy orange butter cake recipe
This orange cake recipe yields a rich butter cake flavored with orange. This moist cake has a very rich orange aroma and goes well with butter icing or chocolate ganache.
Ingredients and cake tin sizes:
| Round tin sizes |
7 inches |
9 inches |
11 inches |
13 inches |
| Square tin sizes |
6 inches |
8 inches |
10 inches |
13 inches |
| Butter |
180g |
360g |
720g |
1440g |
| Castor sugar |
150g |
300g |
600g |
1200g |
| Self raising flour |
170g |
340g |
680g |
1360g |
| Salt |
a pinch |
a pinch |
a pinch |
a pinch |
| Baking powder |
1/4 tsp |
1/2 tsp |
1 tsp |
2 tsp |
| Eggs |
3 |
6 |
12 |
24 |
| Orange juice |
3 tbsp |
6 tbsp |
12 tbsp |
24 tbsp |
| Orange rind (finely grated) |
2 oranges |
4 oranges |
8 oranges |
16 oranges |
Method:
Preheat oven to 170 degrees Celsius.
Beat butter and sugar till soft and creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add salt.
In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder and salt 3 times. Fold in the sifted ingredients into the creamed mixture alternately with orange juice, starting and ending with flour.
Finally add in grated orange rind and combine well. Pour batter into a greased and floured cake tin and bake for 35 to 40 minutes until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
Remove cake from oven and let it cool completely before decorating it.
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