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Soft orange cake


Orange cake

Orange cake is a quick and easy dessert perfect to prepare in winter when this fruit is in season.

We have crowned oranges as queens of winter and to do so there is nothing better than making them the protagonists of a dessert. Nothing too complicated, of course: a simple, soft and fragrant orange cake, without too many frills . After all, preparing a cake must also be a moment of relaxation and you may not always encounter complex steps, frosting and fillings.

What you can therefore expect from this orange cake is lots of flavor and unique softness. Excellent for breakfast or a snack , it is completed with a simple sprinkling of icing sugar and nothing more. Let's see together the steps and ingredients for this dessert with oranges.

Orange cake dough
Orange cake dough

Ingredients

For the orange cake

  • Flour 00 – 250 g
  • Eggs – 3
  • Sugar – 150 g
  • Orange juice – 140 ml
  • Orange zest – 1 tbsp
  • Seed oil – 100 ml
  • Baking powder – 1 sachet
  • Powdered sugar – to taste

Preparation

How to prepare the orange cake recipe

1

First, break the eggs into a bowl. Then add the sugar , the grated orange zest and whip with an electric whisk until the mixture is light and fluffy.

2

Add the oil and orange juice and mix everything again. Now all that remains is to incorporate the sifted flour with the yeast and mix until you obtain a smooth, lump-free mixture.

3

Pour it into a 24cm diameter springform pan lined with baking paper and cook at 180°C for 35 minutes , testing with a toothpick before taking it out of the oven. Once cold, remove it from the mold and decorate as desired with a sprinkling of icing sugar .

This butter-free and dairy-free orange cake has an intense and aromatic scent. You can serve it plain, as we suggested, or fill it by cutting it in half once cold with orange cream (even without eggs ).

Here is a video with all the steps to make it. Easy right?

Alternatively we recommend you try the cinnamon flavored version, a perfect match, the lighter one without eggs or the one with yogurt .

Conservation

The orange cake can be kept under a cake tin for 3-4 days .

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